The audiovisual industry It’s a broken toy factory. Some are simply destroyed when they are forgotten. Others find it themselves. And in the case of Angus T. Jones, the “middle” of ‘Two and a Half Men,’ he definitely broke down by jumping into the pool trying to find meaning in his life. What he found was a tailspin from which he has yet to fully recover. Surely you have asked yourself more than once: What happened to Angus T. Jones?
Manly men, men, men
Angus T. Jones born on October 8, 1993 (doing the math, he is 29 years old) in Austin, Texas. Her parents, Kelly and Carey, were well known to the police for committing crimes of all kinds, from ripping off a taxi meter to robbery (which was really just cheating) to unlicensed gun possession. In 1999, surprisingly, she managed to pull herself together and, after making some announcements at the age of four, landed a role in ‘Simpatico’, a film with Sharon Stone, Jeff Bridges and Nick Nolte. He was only five years old and had a good acting cast.
Little by little he began to make a name for himself as a secondary child in Hollywood: he appeared in ‘Emergency’, ‘Spot’ or ‘The fat was mounted’ before landing the role as the child version of George of the Jungle in its infamous sequel. And then came the golden moment: he auditioned in 2003 for the pilot of a new series and was going to be the first child they saw for the leading role. He didn’t give her time to get out the door: they told him right after his performance that he was, without a doubt, the Jake they were looking for.
Since then, the stardom: Angus T. Jones was nine years old and was already starring in a sitcom with Jon Cryer and Charlie Sheen, as well as premiering a film with Dennis Quaid and Brian Cox, ‘The Rookie’. That same year he collected the People’s Choice Awards on behalf of the entire team: without a doubt, life was looking good. Everyone assured him that it was a dream job, but as a teenager, he had no idea what they were telling him. And, as often happens when you’re a teenager, problems came.
Today I felt the call
‘Two and a Half Men’ began to fall apart after season 8when Charlie Sheen, after signing a million-dollar contract per episode, ended up having problems with Chuck Lorre that led to a hiatus that cost ten million dollars and left eight episodes undone. Obviously, they ended up kicking him out of the series. Ashton Kutcher ended up replacing him (in a change that many sensed was disastrous but that worked) and Sheen apologized in 2021. But something broke in Jones.
The actor had already won two Young Artist Awards and at 17 he was beginning to explore what was beyond the performance. It was then that he took the logical step when you live in the United States and began to get very deep into religion. He attended four or five churches every Sunday until, finally, someone recommended him that of the Seventh-day Adventists, which some have described as a sect. And she influenced him. How.
“If you see ‘Two and a Half Men,’ don’t see ‘Two and a Half Men.’ I’m in ‘Two and a Half Men,’ and I don’t want to be there. stop filling your head with rubbish“, he commented in an extensive interview in The Forerunner where he also said “You can’t be a God fearing person and be on a TV show like that”. He immediately apologized, of course, but it was too late: two seasons later, she left the series because of his beliefs, knowing that this interview would mark the rest of his career.
go and turn around
Jake went to Japan and left his family behind, leaving the door open to introduce another “medium”: the secret daughter of Charlie Sheen’s character. Meanwhile, Angus T. Jones left to create stories based on the Bible and try to expand your faith. He did none of this and, instead, trying to enjoy his new life as a relatively anonymous person, he went to college, where he studied a program of environmental studies and Jewish studies. From what he told in different magazines, he enjoyed not being the center of attention. Come on, what I had not achieved in a decade.
He once made peace with the entire ‘Two and a Half Men’ crew he managed to make a cameo in the final episode where he told how he had fared since his departure. She no longer seemed trash to him. Shortly after, he announced that religion had been a phase but he was once again willing to act free of faith: “I want to see where I can go without an organization putting a stamp of approval on whether I’m good or bad or whatever.”he told People magazine in 2016.
By then, he had already left the university to take care of being the president of entertainment (who could) at Tonite, an event-creation company founded by the son of Puff Daddy that started with a bang and was never heard of again. That same year, Angus T. Jones made his last and brief role to date along with the late Louis CK in the wonderful ‘Horace and Pete’, playing a moral character in an amoral series.
And it is not that the doors of acting have closed: they are still more open than ever, but his name was so dragged on the ground after his religious turn that no one wants to risk having someone in their series or movie who claims that you shouldn’t put garbage in your head. He will always have an Instagram that is more conceptual than anything else where he is barely followed by 23,700 people. All we know is that he lives in Los Angeles, has a bushy beard and so many years of lurching have finally given him clairvoyance, as he explained to People: “I now fully understand what people meant when they said to me ‘Two men and a half’ it was one of the best jobs in the world if not the best“. Late, Angus.
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