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
If it were up to me, every job would be somewhere in Canada.
I have a little sister, and I'm constantly annoyed [by] how terribly written most females are in most everything - and especially in comedy. Their anatomy seems to be the only defining aspect of their character, and I just find that untrustful and it straight-up offends me.
No one has a resume that they are 100% comfortable with, nor does anyone have a life that they are 100% comfortable with.
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.