Meet Chase Offerle

Today we’d like to introduce you to Chase Offerle.

Chase, we’d love to hear your story and how you got to where you are today both personally and as an artist.

Well in a sense I was born into the arts. I certainly had it strong in my blood, my parents were both professional dancers whose careers culminated with my dad starring on an Italian variety show called fantastico as the host and lead dancer and my mother being the lead dancer at the moulin rouge. There are funny Italian tabloids with pictures of them on the front page.

They split up when I was two so I don’t remember them together.

I never really got to see them dance as there is very little footage from that time and by the time they had me the shelf life as a professional dancer (especially in the 90’s) had expired.

I was always around the arts though as my mom taught at a dance studio and my stepmom was a showgirl in Vegas.

My father opened an Italian eatery that stayed open late night catering to the performers who worked until 2 am on the Vegas strip.

Truthfully they never talked about it much growing up and I think the last thing they ever wanted me to be was a professional artist as they knew the hardships and perils that creates. They made the mistake of letting me watch movies.

I was hooked immediately, at eight I begged my mom to be in a theatre class at our local rec center. From there I was “discovered” by Sandra Peabody, she was an actress in the 70’s (Peabody isn’t her real last name) and she studied directly with Sandford Meisner at the neighborhood playhouse.

I started going three times a week and studying the Meisner method. About a year later I booked the part of Joel Cobb in Mike Mills debut film Thumbsucker. Since then I have probably worked on average about two projects a year.

I’ve quit acting and come back a few times… but now I understand it has to be in my life…. nothing else feels quite right. I had to really fall in love with it and myself again and I’m so happy I did.

We’d love to hear more about your art. What do you do you do and why and what do you hope others will take away from your work?

I am an actor and a writer. I do it because it helps me understand myself and humanity better. It forces me to lean into my true loving empathetic full of light nature that life (at times) almost made me turn away from completely.

I can see from other’s perspective and points of view. I can understand the patterns and societal pitfalls that cause man to be evil:.. and I can see how to avoid that and focus on love and light.

We are all one anyway, acting and writing  makes me recognize and actively engage with that oneness and that golden rule.

What I hope you take away from my art is that… it’s never too late to start over. Redemption exists and love is the strongest force in the universe.

Escapism with a lesson. That’s what art means to me.

The better I understand me the better I understand the world.

How can artists connect with other artists?

I think the more true and open you are and the more you fully commit to being the best version of yourself the universe sets you on a path of what you need to do who you need to meet and what you need to experience.

The more Unafraid you are to truly be you the more you will find your true calling and life path.

Everyone is an artist in some way..… I’m just interested in meeting true honest and good humans.

I found my soulmate, Farah Shea. (@farah_shea) She is the most beautiful amazing hardworking talented soul in the world and she challenges me to work harder and be a better person every day simply by how she exists and leads her life.

The answers you seek are inside and the more you focus on you and being the best you that you can the more things reveal themselves.

Lose the idea of the tortured tragic artist leading the “artist lifestyle”. It’s dated and toxic and quite frankly fucking lame. One of my favorite quotes is

“I like to think Van Gogh would have been even more prolific and even greater if he wasn’t so restricted by the things tormenting him, I don’t think it was pain that made him so great—I think his painting brought him whatever happiness he had.”

I am a cis-gendered white male so even though I haven’t had an easy life by any conceivable stretch of the imagination anyone else in my shoes would have had it 1000x worse…. so I don’t want to stand here and preach

But I am a lot more prolific and successful now sober and vegan trying to be the best version of myself every day then I was drug-addled mentally ill and alcoholic. Use love and understanding to fuel you not revenge and hate.

Do you have any events or exhibitions coming up? Where would one go to see more of your work? How can people support you and your artwork?

Go to IMDB and look at my resume… see if there is anything that excites you…. seek out those films or shows and filmmakers and support them.

Tell others if you like what you saw. In particular check out a special show I was honored  to be a part of Trinkets now streaming on Netflix and look out for the upcoming movie Sophie Jones I was lucky enough  to play a fascinating character “Tony” in,  made by the Barr family   written by and starring @jessy_barr and directed by @barrjessie. And as fucking lame, as it sounds follow me on Instagram, I share a lot of my work and viewpoints on there and it’s all interconnected to who I am and my art.

Also, Support women filmmakers!!! I have been incredibly lucky to work with so many beautiful talented female directors and writers. It feels like working with a loving family, whereas working with men (at times… well a lot of times) feels like a pointless pissing contest.

Contact Info:

• Email: offerlecorp@hotmail.com
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/chaseofferle/?hl=en

Image Credit:
Chase Offerle Farah Shea Joshua Melton

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