Child actor, Jacob Cherry, talks about working with Ben Stiller in Night at the Museum and what his life has been like since he dropped acting and pursued a career in law.
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00:00He was a really, the best way to put it is just a normal, a normal guy like to kind of like
00:08help me be more comfortable around him and just like kind of figure out like who we are as people.
00:15He took me to a Knicks game like before we started filming and he brought his friends from like
00:21from when he was a kid like so just I got to see him as just a normal person.
00:27My career day parent is my dad. He's a night watchman at the Museum of Natural History.
00:37I just got to see him as just like I felt like a normal, a normal person. There was no like
00:43mask or anything like that. So after I got out of the museum, I still continued to act. I
00:50continued to audition. Like there was a change for me when I wanted to go to high school. I was like
00:55homeschooled for a lot of my life. Then in college, I was like, hey, let's let's go back
01:00into the acting thing. And then COVID happened and things started to slow down. And law was always,
01:08I'll say politics was always something that was interesting to me. And it just seemed like a great
01:14time to sit for the LSAT and just kind of go for it. I really do love acting. Definitely
01:22something that I actually talked about in interviews. You know, if you're working at
01:26a prosecution office, you can't take paid roles, but you can absolutely do community service or
01:31community, community theater. So that is always an option.