Which Are Your Favorite Jay Ryan Quotes? Jay Ryan Is a New Zealand Actor. He Is Most Popularly Known for His Appearances as ‘Jack Scully’ in the Widely...
Which are your favorite Jay Ryan quotes?
Jay Ryan is a New Zealand actor. He is most popularly known for his appearances as ‘Jack Scully’ in the widely celebrated Australian soap opera ‘Neighbors’.
His recent role as the adult character of ‘Ben Hanscom’ in ‘It Chapter Two’, a sequel of top box office movie ‘It’, earned him a breakthrough in his acting career and more recognition in the U.S. film industry.
Ryan has also featured in many other popular TV series, such as ‘Go Girls’, ‘Top Of The Lake’, and ‘Beauty & the Beast’. Throughout his career as an actor, Ryan has successfully been nominated and won a couple of prestigious film awards, including the ‘Logie award’ and the ‘Equity Ensemble’.
Here’s a collection of the most humbling Jay Ryan quotes:
50 Jay Ryan Quotes About Acting, Work & Life
1. “My family aren’t performers. They’re just normal people. They don’t understand this entertainment world. They just think it’s mental. They have no idea what I’m doing in America.” – Jay Ryan
2. “There were many elements to the film that made it altogether a great time. Even though it’s a scary movie to film, it was more fun than being scared.” – Jay Ryan
3. “I don’t have phobias of clowns, I actually was a clown for one of my first jobs.” – Jay Ryan
4. “Even when I’m working on set I stay in my North American accent, so quite often some of my costars or the guest actors or even the drivers that pick me up from set don’t even hear me in this accent because as soon as I walk out the door I’m in the accent from top to bottom of the day.” – Jay Ryan
5. “So we (Brita and I) really delved into his backstory and what had happened to this man, and it was a deep dive for me. It was exciting to work that way because it meant any of the self-doubts you have on set wasn’t as prevalent. You don’t always get that time to fine-tune your characters.” – Jay Ryan
6. “I researched the original actor (Jeremy Ray Taylor) who played my character (in the first film) and did it in one take. They said “thank you very much”, and I left thinking that’s another one out, so time to go home. And I got the call when I was back in New Zealand saying they liked me, and because they didn’t really know too much about me they asked if I could send photos of myself as a kid to see if I matched up with Jeremy.” – Jay Ryan
7. “I was a very hyperactive child and my parents just didn’t know what to do with me.” – Jay Ryan
8. “I was shooting a mini-series for Sundance/BBC, called ‘Top of the Lake,’ that was shot by Jane Campion, who’s a beautiful native New Zealander and famous film director. The role I was playing was very intense, and they shaved half my hair off. So, I looked like this post-apocalyptic character.” – Jay Ryan
9. “They asked me if I wanted to look at the role, and then I had a few meetings with Roderick and discussed the role and his intentions with it. I didn’t essentially audition. I had the privilege of being asked to collaborate.” – Jay Ryan
10. “I guess I did get to tick a big one off the bucket list, though, and that was being on a giant billboard smack-bang in the hub of Hollywood Boulevard. That was… well, pretty Hollywood.” – Jay Ryan
11. “The original theme of ‘Beauty and the Beast’ is don’t judge a book by its cover. Love what’s inside.” – Jay Ryan
12. “I was employed as a clown in a supermarket and I got like $15 an hour and at the time that was big money. I did the full makeup, I made animal balloons and I did magic tricks. So I did not have a phobia of clowns but I may have given other children a phobias just though my first outings in performance.” – Jay Ryan
13. “In film, you get a bit more of that (collaborative) canvas. I was about to chuck it all in.” – Jay Ryan
14. “I think a lot of people don’t even know I’m from New Zealand because quite often they see me on a show and I’m playing someone from North America.” – Jay Ryan
15. “When I was speaking to Roderick we had framed (my character) Sergeant Shaw as the antagonist, or one of the antagonists, but we put a new lens on it as there’s only one scene that I have with Ahmed (Malek) at the end of the film, so I’m antagonising from afar.” – Jay Ryan
16. “When I started on Mary Kills People, a lot of the sets and locations we went to I had worked in before so a lot of the local actors were like ‘how’d you know all these places in Toronto, we grew up here, you’ve only just arrived.” – Jay Ryan
17. “We didn’t want to give away too much of what the beast looked like. We didn’t want to show too much of him because we didn’t want it to look like a prosthetic mask. We wanted it to look real and intimidating.” – Jay Ryan
18. “We’re making Beauty and the Beast for the new generation, but we want to take these elements from the original. We also want to bring in the romantic elements of the original series, as well.” – Jay Ryan
19. “As an actor, I still get to delve into things in terms of what I wear, my costume, and my props. Also, if the makeup’s quite elaborate you get to collaborate on that too so it would definitely be in that realm for sure.” – Jay Ryan
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