Moonlight's Ashton Sanders on Why Labels Are 'So Outdated'

Ashton Sanders poses for this cool new feature for the latest issue of Teen Vogue.

The 21-year-old Moonlight star opened up to the glossy about playing the 16-year-old Chiron and more.

On labels: “Labels are so outdated. I am about to go in right now. People carry around all these social masks to fit in. “he black, white, Latino [communities] all do it. But Chiron didn’t have the energy to put anything on�he was drained because of his circumstances at home.”

On finding a place in the Amazing Grace Conservatory, a program that seeks to empower young people of color through the performing arts: “It changed my life. Yo, that�to be around artists and people who would accept my odd quirks�that made me into who I am.”

For more on Ashton, visit TeenVogue.com.