United Kingdom, Aug. 8 -- Keen Ruffalo ditched his fashion design studies to become an actor after he suffered from "COVID depression".

The 25-year-old entertainer dropped out of college after the pandemic sent him and his freshman-year cohort home, and seeing how happy performing made his 58-year-old dad, Mark Ruffalo, inspired Keen to abandon his dreams of being a fashion designer and follow in his footsteps.

Appearing on NBC's The Today Show on Friday (07.08.26), the Sterling Point cast member recalled: "It was around COVID, and it got to that point where everyone's really burning out from being inside.

"I was starting my freshman year of college just before COVID happened, and I was going for fashion design originally, and I droppe...