For David Hunt, time is currently being spent embodying another David with the last name of Bowie.

Interest in Bowie sparked for Hunt after his mom suggested the music to him. Now he has almost all of the albums of Bowie.

Hunt, freshman from Rexford, Kan., says an enjoyment and talent for acting leads to him donning the costumes and personas of other people from time to time.

“I just have a natural knack for mimicry,” says Hunt, whose impersonations include Gollum, General Grievous, Captain Jack Sparrow and Peter O’Toole. “I can’t remember all the crap I can do anymore.”

His impersonation of Captain Jack Sparrow, played by Johnny Depp in the “Pirates of the Caribbean” films, began in his junior year of high school while in speech class. Hunt says the assignment was to act out a movie scene without props. He chose the seen from one of the “Pirates” films where they are “multiple Jacks.”

Hunt says once he became good at the voice, his mom made him a Jack Sparrow costume, and he wore it for homecoming that year. He also revisited the costume for his senior year homecoming and a showing of the fourth “Pirates of the Caribbean” film on campus.

“I enjoy it [dressing as Jack Sparrow] because it is weird. Your difference is really accelerated by being Jack Sparrow. It’s like some people look at you like you are an absolute nutcase…It is kind of a hate/love relationship really,” Hunt says.

His interest in wearing various costumes began at a young age as he went through phases, such as a cowboy one and a solider one. He says the cowboy phase continued into high school as he impersonated Clint Eastwood’s character of the man with no name.

Currently a film and media studies major, Hunt says acting is something he would like to do with his life. He would like to be accepted into the acting college, but he knows that will be tough.

“I think I have the potential to be a relatively good actor. I just need a place to learn it,” Hunt says.

As far as extended plans for his life, Hunt says he just wants to make the world a better place.

“I want people to be happy, and I want to make people laugh,” says Hunt, adding that he would like to be a good man of whom people can say he did something worthwhile with his life.