[RJ] Yes, I am. I always have a blast being in Europe. It’s also my first time in Italy so that’s cool.

[RJ] It was amazing. I’ve never had an opportunity to do something like that before and I’m so thankful to the whole Westwood team for giving me that opportunity.

[RJ] Oh yeah, that was interesting and I didn’t really expect I would be showing boobs in my first show. I’m conservative with what I wear so this was interesting for me. I think it played out well. Free the nipple!

[RJ] Andreas was a pleasure, and it was great to work with the whole team again. They’re a big family and have an amazing family dynamic. It would be a true honour.

[RJ] I like Todd Lynn, Armani, Moods of Norway, Fendi and Vivienne Westwood of course. These are some of my favorites, but I like good fabrics.

[RJ] It was good, so much fun, and exhausting! I got to meet Samantha Cameron at 10 Downing Street. She also does work with Scope, so that was very cool. I spoke at Oxford Union to the future leaders of the world and that was definitely an honor. We we’re flown there by Warner Music as guests. Those guys are always very cool.

[RJ] I did enjoy the Brits. I met a lot of people. The people here in the UK are so lovely and always so polite. I hung out a bit with Ed Sheeran. What a cool dude. That was definitely his night!

[RJ] Madonna is amazing, even with that fall; she got right back up and did what she needed to do. It just shows you how much she loves doing what she does.

[RJ] I was born in Mississippi and adopted at birth. I had died during childbirth and was brought back to life hence how I ended up with Cerebral Palsy. CP is caused by a lack of oxygen to the brain at childbirth. At that time Mississippi had some unfortunate health care rules.

[RJ] I think the rules have changed as more people understand health and what the human body is capable of. We still have a long way to go, but there are a lot of amazing people making great strides

Do you feel that being adopted has made an impact on your life, and was it a difficult thing for you to except as a child?
 
[RJ] Since I was adopted at birth, I don’t think of it like that. My parents are my parents. I think my mom gave me the best life she could. They never made me feel less or treated me differently. I was their child and that was it. Even after they found out I had CP, nothing changed. I felt like my life was very normal and that everyone had to do the things I did. I was never made to feel I had a disability. I didn’t even know I had a disability until I went to school.

[RJ] I was diagnosed through Shriner’s Hospitals’ for Children at age 3. It wasn’t so much about being diagnosed, as they just didn’t know what was wrong.

[RJ] I didn’t know I was different until I went to school and a kid looked at me and said: “What’s wrong with you?” And I said: “Nothing, what’s wrong with you?”

[RJ] I don’t know if teasing makes you stronger, but what it does do is make you want to prove people wrong and utilize my disadvantages as advantages.

[RJ] I started acting at age 13. My little sister was discovered at a water park in Houston when she was 1 ½ years old. They wanted her for a Lucille Ball campaign. So we came to LA, did the campaign and people here told my mom that if they wanted to keep doing that, she should get an agent. So we were interviewing agents and I happened to be there that day and the agent said: “Great, we like her and we’ll sign her. What about your son?”
My mom said, “Oh he knows nothing about acting” and then whispered, “He has CP, he hears the word “No” too often.” The agent pushed my mother aside and asked me if I wanted to act. I said “Sure” and she had me read something and then said: “Great, I’ll take them both.” So I started doing background work on about 13 or 14 shows including: Hanna Montana, Weeds, Everybody Hates Chris, etc… About 6 months in, I got an audition for Breaking Bad and after five auditions, four in LA and one in New Mexico, I got the role and the rest is history.

[RJ] I enjoy working with organizations that are close to my heart. I have the same vision as the people at Shriner’s Hospitals for Children in the US & Scope in the UK. We are both working to change how the masses view people with disabilities or challenges. People who are “differently abled.”

[RJ] #CutTheBull is a campaign that was developed by my manager, Melinda, myself and the team at Shriners & 1st Degree last August. We wanted to bring awareness that kids who are “differently abled” and are more likely to be bullied than kids without disabilities because they are seen as weaker individuals. I was bullied because of my disability. We won’t ever end bullying. If we did, we would have world peace, but we can try to prevent it and educate people to be more understanding and to stick up for those who need help.

[M] I do. I feel very passionate about RJ’s charities for my own reasons. People don’t know but my father was disabled at the age of 18 when he had to have a brain tumor removed. It left him with partial paralysis on the left side of his body. I have a funny story. I actually never knew my father was disabled until I was about 13 years old. He walked me to school and I met my girlfriend. As he walked away this friend asked me why my father limped. I said that he doesn’t limp and she replied that he does. We started to get into an argument about it and then she said: “Look” and we turned around and I looked at my father and that was the first time I ever saw him limp. When I got home I asked him, why he limped and then notices his left hand didn’t work like mine and he told me the story. We never treated him like he was any different. He was just my dad and I loved him, he was perfect to me.
Regardless of our differences we are all beautiful in our own way. I want the world to see that.

[RJ] I play Doug, the lead. Doug has a severe form of Muscular Distrophy. He’s in a motorized wheel chair and can’t really move his bottom jaw. Doug has a crazy mother who smothers him. He gets out of his comfort level and goes on a road trip of discovery with his driver. It changes his life. There are some twists and turns along the way. It will make you laugh and make you cry, but he comes out a better person in the end. A lot of the events in the movie are based on true events of the writer, Michael Carnick. Michael and I are good friends. He’s a talented writer.

[RJ] I have a film that premiered at Tribeca called “Dixieland”. Starring Faith Hill, Riley Keough & Chris Zylka. I play a dealer and the manager of a strip club. We shot that in Pearl, Mississippi. I wanted to take some time off of work and do something fun, so I’m taking a month off in April to do something I’ve wanted to do since before I was on Breaking Bad. I’ve just finished my first DJ tour. I love music and would like to share my music with people. “Who’s Driving Doug” should be released later in the year. I have some projects coming up this summer and I’ll be doing some modeling as well.