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Aidan Gallagher is an American actor and environmental activist. He is best known for his role as Number Five in the Netflix series "The Umbrella Academy." Gallagher's talent and his dedication to environmental causes have made him a recognized figure in the entertainment industry and a prominent advocate for sustainability.

In the first season, Five was not very inclusive and he felt he needed to do everything himself. He didn't really open up to his family about the apocalypse. By the end of that season, he goes to them for help. He realizes he needs The Umbrella Academy - the full force of his family.

I am committed to lending my voice and participating in action campaigns to support the U.N. Sustainable Development Goals that must be achieved by 2030.

I'm 15 and everything I'm doing right now is really exciting to me, so, actually, whatever I'm into at the moment, I'm somehow able to stay very focused on. I just keep moving forward.

I found out that the animal agriculture business has a huge impact on our climate, so by cutting down on your meat and dairy consumption, you can have a huge impact and help the environment.

As an actor, the first day of any production is th... -Aidan Gallagher

As an actor, the first day of any production is the most stressful.

I don't know that I would say I've felt like a 58-year-old, but I've never felt exactly my age, or in the right place.

One of the things that interested me about Five was the trauma that was contributed via the apocalypse. I wanted to make sure that I got his PTSD correct.

What I try to do on my Instagram is provoke discussion and share environmental and sustainability messages.

Generally, when you prepare for a fight scene, you have a day before, where you're going through hours of choreography and getting comfortable with the different moves.

One thing people forget about is that behind the camera are hundreds of people without whom we couldn't make the show. Each of them is doing an important task, it's just the actors become the face of the series.

When you go out to eat, bring a fork from home instead of using a plastic single-use utensil and ask them to hold the straw or use a reusable one.

Exposure is this thing people think they want but ... -Aidan Gallagher

Exposure is this thing people think they want but at the end of day it doesn't matter.

I don't know that I could ever really pull off Ferris Bueller because that was done in such an iconic way already.

I don't know that Five was a good person before he got stuck in the apocalypse, in a way that really made him a bit more open-minded.

It's very fun as an actor to be in the skin of Five and to have Diego as a brother. Those two characters, they both are very driven and determined, and where Five isn't as personable as he should be, Diego makes up for it.

One of the great things about The Umbrella Academy' and its TV version is that there are 10 hours of footage, so characters are a lot more fleshed out and further developed.

It definitely takes a long time, because Umbrella Academy' scenes are very interesting from a writing point of view with all these very off-the-cuff, oddball characters who are all different from each other.

He just gets progressively more and more stressed and as his anxiety builds up, so does the chaos behind his eyes. That was very fun as an actor to see that sort of bubble over and really take over Five, and him really succumb to his suppressed insanity.

I've always looked at the world of Umbrella Academ... -Aidan Gallagher

I've always looked at the world of Umbrella Academy' with the world that I live in.

Shooting Umbrella Academy' is like shooting five movies. You're working with a cast of incredibly talented 30-year-olds who all know what their mission is.

I believe that if today's youth work together raising our collective voice, we can affect the positive environmental change that Planet Earth needs so desperately.

I get a lot of hate posting vegan, environment and... -Aidan Gallagher

I get a lot of hate posting vegan, environment and pollution stuff.

I know how much money goes into every minute of production and how many people are counting on me, so I don't ever want to be one to let anyone down.

Five has sort of had his own little life aside from everyone. He spent 45 years in the apocalypse, and that took a toll on him and was a big part of his overall trauma.

The United Nations is calling this the decade of action, from 2020 to 2030, because if we don't take immense action, there will be irreversible damage. If we don't, we are looking at an increasingly difficult world to survive in.

It's very fun to see how fans react and theorize and get excited about what might happen in future seasons.

Quarantine has really affected me in terms of thinking about what the rest of the world is going through and what isolation within a small space might be like.

I'm actually an only child with very supportive parents, so I didn't have the sibling rivalry to draw from.

I always look at the motives behind each scene. You can play that out tonally with how you express yourself or you can do that with your physical expression, your physical presence. So I always think about what physical presence I want to embody in each scene.

I grew up a fan of comics and hanging out in local comic book stores, talking to the store manager and seeing what their favorites are.

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