The Hidden Cost Of Making It In Hollywood

Victor Varnado moved to New York in 1997. By 1999 he was in End of Days with Arnold Schwarzenegger and The Adventures of Pluto Nash with Eddie Murphy. Then he walked away from that path because Hollywood only wanted him playing the same type of role. Since then he has written for Marvel and Vice, produced television, done stand-up as King Supernuts, and built a business called High Score Game Arcade, a B2B video game publisher creating custom games for brands. His current project is the Worldwide Tic-Tac-Toe Championship, a live gamified broadcast system he patented 30 minutes before this interview, designed in part to identify high fluid intelligence through simple tic-tac-toe strategy. Plus mushroom stories at Eric Andre's birthday party, the master plan for world domination, and why he thinks video games are no different from a great novel.