Blake Jenner Reenacts His Favorite Jim Carrey Scene

What's going on, guys? Hanging with me right now. I have the Blake Jenner. What's going on, Blake?

I'm good. I'm good. So excited to be here. Thanks for having me.

Well, thanks for coming back. You it's been like, gosh, a few years I think since you've been here.

Yeah, with that just 17. That's right. Haley, Haley and Hayden, we're all here.

Hey, Haley and Hayden. Yeah. We played telephone, you guys had to like relay information to each other and you were at the end and you had to give the final, the final sentence. It was awful. It was so funny though. Oh my God. All right. Well, glad people laughed.

Yeah. So I messed it up.

No, it's all good. It's funnier when you mess things up, right?

Oh, okay. Well, then I must be doing all right in life then because I keep screwing up.

Yes. Speaking of doing all right in your life, you just casually have this new film Billy Boy and you wrote the entire thing and you star in it.

Mhm.

Congratulations. What's amazing.

Thank you so much. Yeah, I know. It's been it's been a long time coming with this one. Started writing it between season 4 and season 5 of Glee. Wow. Uh, I was like 20 when I when I first started laying it down on my laptop. I got an an amazing director Brad Beecher. We have an an amazing team of people behind it and the cast was always so game. We we we got so lucky with everyone involved so, just so excited to get it out and see how it resonates with people now.

Yeah. So what inspired that entire idea of the film?

I grew up loving movies like this, you know, like a a young person with all the potential in the world and once they discover it, it it's kind of it's a battle to to keep it and to strive for what they want. You know, I I love Good Will Hunting and I loved watching Basketball Diaries growing up. This Boy's Life. Touches on a couple things that I find interesting, like, you know, toxic masculinity or or being a a victim of circumstance, like a product of your environment. Has an important message for for parents to have an open open dialogue with kids in a certain way too. So, so yeah.

Yeah. Well, actually, I watched it and it's so intense. It's so good. So congratulations on on keeping my attention. It was amazing.

Thank you so much. Um, and you play Billy the main character. I find him so interesting because I feel like there's so many layers. We see him go through so many different types of things. So I'm curious is there any part of you that inspired Billy at all? Or if not, what did?

You know, I grew up I was the I'm the youngest of four boys. So needless to say, I I got I got beat up a lot. Thanks, guys. But also like, it takes time, I feel like, as a youngest child to to be to get get the license of of of being heard, you know, I I I feel like you got to you got to earn earn your keep and and earn respect in the family and to to not be viewed as the baby. So, for for Billy, I feel like he's quite he's like a bit of a silent warrior. I think there's there's moments in in the movie where he's kind of in his head and he's just running through everything and that's not a good thing either. You shouldn't live within yourself too much. You should be able to reach out to the people you care about and that's something that I battled when growing up. And that's why when I found the arts and and drama and acting I felt like it was the first time that I'd found my own kind of point of view away from home. So.

Well, and the scenes too, that you particularly you are in, they're really violent and physical, but they seem so real. So did you have like workouts, special things that you were doing to kind of learn how to throw the punches and all of that, or did you just know?

I just knew it all.

Made it look so good.

On set, we had a a wonderful stunt coordinator who's who's there with us, you know, making sure all the punches sold and everything that nobody was getting hurt. Even though I did sometimes, but that was okay. I was kind of it was my fault. I just kept throwing myself into it because I wanted to wanted it to be all method and as authentic as it could be.

I was about to say as an actor, you're probably loved that. Having get hurt a little bit.

Yeah, it was like a playground every day. And like I said, every every actor was so game. So I I I learned a lot. I learned a lot. It especially, you know, you think acting, you think it's all just like, you know, you say this, I say that, and let's find the feeling within it. But there's a lot of private moments in this movie that I think I learned the most from, you know, communicating just with silence in your eyes, like it it could it could mean so much more than a hefty conversation. And,

And maybe we should do the rest of this just telepathically. Is that cool?

Yeah. I'm actually kind of tired, so I was thinking about maybe taking a nap while you just telepathically talk to our fans about what we

I want to ask you. No. I'm just kidding. But I I seriously do love that. And Jim Carrey, during my research. Yeah. Your hero, right?

He's a well, yeah. No, I I grew up on on his movies. I I I only wanted to do comedy when I was a kid because I thought I thought he was the coolest dude ever. And I I I memorized all of his movies and I I remember doing a like a stand-up routine for my fifth grade, uh, talent show and I I stole some impressions from him. He had like one being like an angry Saint Bernard and, uh, he would put a little water in his mouth and then just like, spit it all out at the audience and I did that.

You did?

Yeah, yeah, yeah. So so yeah. I was I was crazy about him. Yeah. And Dumb and Dumber? That was like the first movie that I that made me I was like, oh, this looks like fun. What is this? Oh, it's acting. I was like, I want to do this.

So I have to ask, what's your favorite scene then?

Oh, man. Might be, uh, What are you, a camel? He was like, So good.

I love it. Well, before we go, I do want to congratulate you on another project that is out right now, American Animals with Evan Peters. Oh, yeah. Yes. Yes. And I love that movie so much too. I think that's a that's a really unique and unconventional story. It's got it's it's a wild, unbelievable story, but it's all true. So proud of that. Yeah. Blake, you are welcome here anytime. Thanks so much.

Thank you so much.

Ultimate high-five. Yeah. Done and done.