Peter Parros Biography, Age, Family, Wife, Net Worth, Interview, as the World Turns
Now, with his critically acclaimed role as judge ‘David Harrington’ on OWN’s hit primetime drama, Tyler Perry’s The Haves and the Have Nots, Mr. Parros keeps sailing to success.
Owner of a production company, Ten Talents Productions, Peter Parros is a loving father, and businessman who stops at nothing to let his creative talents be heard and seen.
Read our exclusive interview with Mr. Parros as he talks about the ins and outs of the TV business, his role on Tyler Perry’s The Haves and the Have Nots, and much more….
Parlé Mag: You’ve been acting for quite some time now. What would you say inspired you to become an actor?
Peter Parros: Well, I actually came into acting through writing, and also because of my cousin. I thought I was going to be a dental technician, which is what my dad did. He’s retired now. He had his own dental lab. I ended up getting a temporary job working with a company that built miniatures for movies.
It was called, ‘Brick Price Movie Miniatures’. We also had a magazine—actually, two magazines that we put out on model building techniques and one called, ‘Special Effects Modeler’. At that point, miniatures were being used in movies. I was managing editor of that magazine. It was just much more exciting to me than making teeth.
So, I really didn’t get into acting until after high school. I have a cousin named, Justin Lord—who’s an actor and who’s in a theater company called, ‘American Theater Arts’. It’s in Hollywood. Well, used to be in Hollywood. It actually doesn’t exist anymore. I ended up going there. Started in theater and commercial—mostly television. But, that was really kind of the way it came in. I initially thought I would be doing action, adventure, and sci-fi.
Parlé Mag: Throughout your acting career, what is something that you know now about the business that you wish you would’ve known when you first started out?
Peter Parros: How to say this? The money is not the most important thing. I had actually a couple of shows that agents previously told me not to do because the money wasn’t right in their minds. I had one that I wish I had actually done. I won the role but didn’t accept it because of the money. It was a series with Robert Conrad called, High Mountain Rangers. I had just come off of Knight Rider, and I wish I had done that.
The second time, it was the same agent who told me not to do this show I had done called, The New Adam 12. I wanted to do it; I knew the producers—they wanted me on the show. Even with this show, The Haves And The Have Nots, when it was starting out, they were like ‘Well, you know it’s new—the network.’ This, that, blah, blah blah. I’m like, ‘It’s Oprah Winfrey and Tyler Perry. I want to do it.’ So, I would say if there’s a role that you want to do, do it. I wouldn’t let my business people or manager, agent talk me out of doing a show that I wanted to do because they thought that the money wasn’t right.
Parlé Mag: Right! So, as you just said, you also write as well. Are you currently working on any movie projects, scripts, or anything?
Peter Parros: Yes! Well, I’ve actually got three projects that I’m working on. One is a feature film. The working title of it is Fire of Fire. Interestingly, they all have kind of an angel theme. They are all faith-based, but not necessarily overtly. But, one is called Fire of Fire, which is a feature film. The other, it’s actually a comic book series that I acquired to write called, Kidz of the King. I had produced five years ago an animated DVD of it.
There was a ministry out of Chicago who was doing the comic books—but they stopped doing them, and then, earlier this year, I acquired the rights to the comic books. So, I’m working on re-doing that—and that’s kids’ oriented. The third thing is a comic book and the working title of that is Earthbound.
I’m working with a guy, Jim Krueger, who does writing for Marvel, DC comics, and different things. It’s about an angel stuck on earth—it’s a Black angel. Pretty cool. Very different kind of concept. So, actually, we’re going to do six comic books that will become a graphic novel. We’ve got it outlined on the first five, but we haven’t started the artwork on it yet.
Parlé Mag: That seems really interesting!
Peter Parros: Yeah, yeah! As I said, it has a spiritual theme, but you know what, it’s about an angel whose history goes back thousands and thousands of years. I don’t want to give too much of it away yet. But, it’s a very cool, different kind of semi-superhero is—sort of Jason Bourne, like Bourne Identity, feel to it. It’s probably more of an adult audience comic book as opposed to Kidz of the King—which is like a teenage comic book. So, those are my writing projects.
Source: parlemag.com
