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Leo Woodall, who has a number of actors in his family, tells PEOPLE about the jobs he wanted to have when he was a kid before he decided on acting<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n
“By osmosis, it eventually got me,” he says of embracing acting as his chosen profession<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n
Woodall costars with Dustin Hoffman in the new movie Tuner<\/em>, in limited theaters May 22 and everywhere May 29<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n Leo Woodall<\/a> grew up surrounded by actors, but as a kid, he envisioned working in a field slightly left-of-center to those in frame on the big screen.<\/p>\n “There were some actors in my family. My father’s an actor, my stepfather was an actor before he passed,” Woodall, 29, tells PEOPLE in a recent interview with his costar Dustin Hoffman<\/a> for their new movie Tuner<\/em>. “My grandmother, my mom’s mom; it goes back. But ironically, it was the sort of last thing that I wanted to do. I think maybe \u2014 not because of that, but I don’t know. By osmosis, it eventually got me.”<\/p>\n “What were your first, second, third choices?” Hoffman, 88, asks. “P.E. teacher, or maybe football [soccer] coach,” Woodall says. “And then stuntman. Stuntman was probably my first ever dream job.”<\/p>\n In Tuner<\/em>, Woodall portrays a young man and former piano prodigy named Niki who works as an apprentice piano tuner to Hoffman’s master tuner Harry. Niki suffers from ultra-sensitivity to noise, also known as hyperacusis, which derailed his career in music. The movie’s plot kicks into gear when Niki meets a group of criminals who crack safes in wealthy homes and realizes his condition makes him a talented choice for decoding a combination lock.<\/p>\n