Best thing that's happened this year? Maybe Hostel. It was a great experience. I loved it.
But in film you always watch situations or stories that you really have no relation to. A lot of times just because there's no personal connection doesn't mean you can't connect with the film or the characters in the film.
For me, I think that I don't like feeling pressure from outside sources. I'd rather put the pressure on myself and push myself to do it as good as I can.
I gained an appreciation for firefighters especially that they had a lot of the limelight after 9/11 and what happened to them.
I grew up in LA. I sort of watched the Raiders play and that sort of thing.
I was very conscious of that because these are real people, this is a real story, and you want to do them justice.
I would say being in that institution - that psyche ward, or whatever it was. That was really creepy because it was a real place from like the early 1900s.
I'd heard about Texas football and how much of a religion it is, but to go to Odessa and experience it first-hand is something different than just hearing about it.
I'm pretty athletic and I play basketball a lot.
It's always challenging to go into a role.
It's like classic horror. The sound of a chainsaw on the set got everybody amped.
No, I was going to college and got discovered.
No, I've never played baseball in my life.
Some of the material out there - I don't want to say that it's all bad - but there's a lot of bad stuff out there. You just continue reading scripts, and eventually you find something you connect with.
The strangest thing is going out and having people recognize you and want to take pictures, and want your autograph.
There are a couple of projects that are sort of on the plate; I haven't closed any of them yet. I'm trying to figure out which one is going to be the best one for me.
We're not in high school anymore and we've had a little more life experiences to help us better understand what were going through in terms of stardom and recognition.
He was featured in TV Guide's January 23, 2004 issue in an article called "The 5-Year Plan."
Jay was orginally in the season premiere of American Family but he was later replaced by actor A.J. Lamas.
His parents are Isis and Javier.
In 2002 Jay played on the 'stars' team for MTV's Rock and Jock.
For many years now, has been dating Daniella Deutscher who played Julie Connor on the show Hang Time in which he also starred.
Jay's agent and mentor, Hunter Tyner, discovered him in an elevator and put him through acting classes. Tyner died of a sudden heart attack in 2001 during the launching of Crazy/Beautiful in Hollywood.
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