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
I guess I always have sort of general ideas, but the best stuff would be the stuff that comes to you in the moment, always.
I notice the older I get, the more my speaking voice turns people around. Even if they have no idea who I am, they know they've heard this weird nasal disaster somewhere before.
I would say that since I was nine years old I've always wanted to write and direct horror movies and action movies. There's never been a time in my life where that wasn't all I wanted to do.
I don't work in movies and TV because I adore acting, it's because I adore movies and TV.
My vanity and narcissism will never let me go too far.
I'm a chronic ad-libber. So whoever hires me, often to their chagrin, should know that I will be talking a bunch of smack.
The hockey I was raised on, the hockey I understand, the hockey that my dad taught me about when I was a boy was intrinsically connected with fighting. I grew up in a house where we revered tough guys.
I am a proud Montrealer. Jobs will take me where they take me, but nothing will ever be able to convince me to leave my home.
I have a maple leaf tattoo over my heart, quite literally, and my two favorite things on Earth are being in Canada and making movies.
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.
I enjoy acting, and it's given me a ton of happiness and it's affected my life and my family's lives in ways that we just can't imagine.
For every big American movie I've done where I was the supporting guy, I've gone back home to Canada to do supporting movies where I was the lead.
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.