“I just love eccentricity,” he said. “I just love everyone who is a bit of the beaten path. I love to challenge myself if I can, you know, play parts that I had never thought of a million years I would play. As, I think my thing is, If I see a role and there is a potential because I play the role, if it scares me I know I’m in the right place.
And while his parents did not initially “super -psyched” to find out that he wanted to follow in their footsteps as an actor (because it is such a tough profession), as Jack told Hollywood Reporter In December, they support him in his efforts.
“But there is definitely a need to prove myself,” he told New York Times recently. “There is a bit of something with identity and thinking, do I have any value outside them? Not to say that I complain. “
Meg has defended his son from being painted with the wide brush of nepotism, storytelling Glamor In 2023, “Jack is really talented. He is more a natural than I will ever be. That Nepo things are so dismissive of his work ethics, his gifts and how sensitive he is to the idea of his privilege.”
After his mother went to beat for him, Jack told The Daily Beast, “My first thought was like, she’s mom. She’s a loving mother.”
