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Lana Condor on how she struggled to fit in as a teen just like 'Ruby Gillman'

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Yong Chavez | TFC News Hollywood

<figure class="op-interactive"><iframe height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/6GLQHW--O9A?enablejsapi=1" width="560"></iframe></figure><div class="iwantbar">Watch more News on <a href="https://www.iwanttfc.com/#!/browse/Genres/News/tag_id_genres/id_news" target="_blank">iWantTFC</a></div><p>To play the shy teenager &quot;Ruby Gillman,&quot; Lana Condor tapped into her own experiences when she was younger.</p><p>Condor, who shot to fame through the &quot;To All The Boys I&#x27;ve Loved Before&quot; series, said she knows all too well how it feels to want to fit in.</p><p>&quot;When I was younger, I very much was trying to lay low and fit in. I really didn&#x27;t want to stand out or pull focus at all,&quot; she said. &quot;In high school, I would sometimes try and change my appearance to look more like everyone else, because I didn&#x27;t really go to a diverse high school or middle school.&quot;</p><p>Condor added: &quot;I&#x27;ve definitely been through that kind of mental challenge of being insecure within myself and feeling like, I wish I didn&#x27;t look different than everyone, and I wish I wasn&#x27;t different. But now I&#x27;ve done a lot of work on that and I&#x27;m a lot older now, I&#x27;ve grown out of that.&quot;</p><p>When Ruby finds out that as a teenage &quot;Kraken,&quot; she is meant for much bigger things, she gets a confidence lesson from her grandmother, the Warrior Queen of the Seven Seas, played by Jane Fonda.</p><p>Condor is the first female lead of a Dreamworks animated film. She shared how she fell in love with voice acting.</p><p>&quot;It&#x27;s so different,&quot; Condor said. &quot;I’m so used to being able to play off like another person. Having to find out how I can express just as much but with my voice and my tone and my diction and all of that stuff, it was challenging but I was excited about it.&quot;</p><p>Toni Collette, Annie Murphy, Colman Domingo, and other talented actors round out the cast of the Dreamworks animated film, &quot;Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken.&quot;</p>

Condor, who shot to fame through 'To All The Boys I've Loved Before,' said she knows all too well how it feels to want to fit in.