I first met Ash Christian at the Library Bar inside the Melrose Hotel. There were several of us, and we all ordered cocktails, including Ash. “I’ll need to see an ID,” the waitress said.
Ash glanced down. “Just a Diet Coke, then,” he probably said. That was when it first occurred to me that despite his height and self-possession, Ash was still just a kid… and one who was doing things.
We met because he was making his movie debut as actor, writer and director of a Texas-shot film called Fat Girls, and the location he had scouted, and secured, for shooting in Waxahachie fell through at the last minute when local officials learned it was a “gay” film.