Garrett Wareing recently marked his 24th birthday, but he’s hardly had time to celebrate. Over the past five days, he’s wrapped one movie, flown to Los Angeles to attend a press event for another — The Long Walk , a Stephen King adaptation out Sept. 12 — and driven to New Mexico, where he’ll film Season 2 of Netflix’s ranch drama, Ransom Canyon .

It’s a dizzying schedule. It’s also the exact kind of busy Wareing always hoped to be. “The gratitude does not leave me for a second,” he tells Bustle. “I understand this is rare, and it’s a privilege, and I feel so damn lucky to be part of this.”

Wareing, who hails from small-town Texas, has been working his way up in Hollywood for over a decade — and even took a few detours, like briefly becoming a scuba instructor. (During the pandemic, h

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