previously expressed interest in raising the minimum age for the Americans doing life-threatening work, such as federal firefighters. Our federal government canlearn from Indigenous practices last year that he regained his memory of the event, prompted by the smells of gasoline, which he encountered while working as a lawyer on a case that involved a woman who was falsely accused of murder. He’s written about the incident in his book,Bobby’s Trials Sweetness aside, the news created a bit of a frenzy: Apparently Avan only had a week until he had to fly off to start training for the physically-demanding series, but such is life when you're an up-and-coming actor taking on big-deal roles. "I'm so excited to be part of this series," he told us, still flushed with emotion from winning the part. "It's going to be amazing to work with Sir Ben Kingsley, someone that I admired growing up. We'll be shooting in Morocco for five months. It's going to be incredibly physical: I'll be riding chariots, shooting arrows, throwing knives. I just need to learn how to do all that. This is my life—this is being an actor. That's the hardest part of the job, but it's also the most exciting: You never know what you're going to have to get good at, so you have to be really good at picking up stuff quickly. Like riding horses and chariots, of all things."