Jonathan Lipnicki.
Getty Images(2)Jonathan Lipnicki He never lost the talent for acting growing up and Out of the spotlight.
“Really, it was like just going to high school,” Lipnicki, 34, said and! news In an interview published on Tuesday, January 21. I still have my agent, and I'll audition here and there.
The actor was a child when he rose to fame Stuart Little and Jerry Maguire In the 1990s. Although he admitted to not acting much in the late 2000s, it wasn't for lack of effort.
“I auditioned a lot and didn't get things. I think it's appropriate to say that, right? He shared. “Acting is something I've always loved, and sometimes you don't love it back. There was a period where I didn't work for a while and I was just catching up on it.
Lipnicki said he continued to participate in acting classes and did his best “to be in tune with who he was.”
“There was just a part where I probably wasn't very good, and I'm OK with saying that,” he explained in his recent interview. “Maybe it's about me, and I'm more than willing to work on myself all the time and take responsibility and control what I can control.”
And later this month, Lipnicki will appear on the small screen playing an elaborate fictionalized version of himself Joe Schmo Show.
Hosted by Cat Dailythe show features a new cast of improvised characters who help enact a fake reality competition scenario centered around an ordinary man.
Whether he wins or loses, Lipnicki said he always finds the silver lining in an industry that's always unpredictable.
“I figured out at a young age what I wanted to spend the rest of my life achieving, so I could never be mad at him,” he said after more than 25 years of playing. Renée ZellwegerSon in Jerry Maguire. “I'm always grateful for that. I live more in the present now and really try to focus on who I am now and what that will look like in the future. But I'm very grateful for the past.”
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He is also focused on being the “best person” he can be as he follows his heart and continues his acting journey.
“I've been through it — ups and downs — and steady through it all, this is the thing I love to do with my life,” he said. “I know the best is yet to come for me.”
Joe Schmo Show Premieres on TBS Tuesday, January 21 at 9pm ET.
