When Ethan Slater wasn’t cast in “Arabian Nights” his freshman year at Georgetown Day School in Washington, he decided to try something he’d never done — wrestling. His red hair, slightly nasal voice and the small gap between his two front teeth surely didn’t hurt, either. Advertisement Continue reading the main storyBut perhaps he was fated for the role from the start. VideoIn 2012, Mr. Slater was a sophomore at Vassar College, and had been acting in plays and musicals since childhood. He insists that he was holding a SpongeBob plush doll and staring right at a SpongeBob poster in his friend’s dorm room when his phone rang.

Source: New York Times November 22, 2017 16:07 UTC