Jay Baruchel
Jay Baruchel
Jonathan Adam Saunders "Jay" Baruchelis a Canadian actor and comedian. He plays Josh Greenberg in the FXX comedy television series Man Seeking Woman and played the lead character in Judd Apatow's comedy series, Undeclared. He appeared in supporting roles in box office successes, including Million Dollar Baby, Knocked Up and Tropic Thunder, and starred in the films She's Out of My League, The Trotsky, The Sorcerer's Apprentice, This Is the End, How to Train Your Dragon and its sequel How...
NationalityCanadian
ProfessionMovie Actor
Date of Birth9 April 1982
CityOttawa, Canada
CountryCanada
Rigidity is the enemy of acting. And I think that people who stay up all night focusing on every beat they're going to do the next day always end up getting screwed.
There's a chunk of myself in every part I play.
You grow up skinny in Canada; in working-class Montreal, you're definitely the underdog.
I think sports makes for good drama because it has all the same ingredients as anything worth reading or listening to or watching. Conflict, desire, heartbreak - it's all there.
I'd say that the No. 1 attribute you need as an actor is to be malleable. You need to be able to change and tailor what you're doing to what the situation dictates.
I'm a massive movie nerd. That being said, I could retire tomorrow because I wrote this movie 'Goon' and it came out, and it connected and it's a wonderful flick that I think is beautiful and then it had this wonderful life and it means a lot to a lot of people.
Long before I ever started acting, believe it or not, I always knew I wanted to be a director.
Montreal is a great town. There's equal parts blue-collar town.
I like writing strong women, because as a straight male, there's nothing more attractive to me than a strong girl.
I know it's going to sound like a cliché, but the key of successful playing a role is to sort of keep it real and earnest and react the way that one would react in those situations. Where the disconnect between the movie and the audience would happen is if you go too big or too crazy with that stuff.
In the best-case scenario, the audience sees themselves in your shoes. The only way you can do that is if you try to play it as if it was happening to you.