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Colton Haynes, the out actor most known for his roles in Teen Wolf and Arrow, has opened up about his struggle to break into the industry for Vulture. 

When Haynes was just 14-years-old, he danced as a gogo boy at bars in Kansas. In 2006, Haynes moved to Los Angeles and took his first LA job as a phone-sex operator, using his country upbringing to sell a farm boy persona. "It wasn’t how I had planned on making it in Hollywood, but it wasn’t a bad start," he said, "to be 18 years old, new in town, and earning enough money to pay my bills. I dipped in and out of dinners, shops, and meetings to take my calls. Standing on Santa Monica Boulevard outside a CVS, I growled into my cell phone to a caller, 'You want me to fatten you up like livestock getting ready for slaughter?' I kept it up as passersby eyed me strangely. 'Time for your Geritol.'"