Before Jake Lacy graduated drama school, he had to make a huge decision: picking his stage name. Born Jameson Griffin Lacy, he planned on using his given moniker throughout his career. But, after seeing his decision, his dean questioned him: “Who is this Jameson? You’re the most Jake person I know!” Lacy, who plays Troy Delaney on potential Emmy nominee “ Apples Never Fall ,” said on an episode of the Variety Awards Circuit Podcast that he thinks plenty of actors are pigeon holed in the industry, but he can chameleon around and play a multitude of characters: “I’ve never been a star.
Most people don’t know who I am or recognize me...
Now it feels like there’s a little wider scope there as to what people will see me for or think of me as.” Listen below! The Peacock limited series follows the Delaney family, Palm Beach tennis royalty that begins to fall apart when its matriarch Joy (Annette Bening) goes missing and family secrets are revealed. Comparing this character to the childish frat bro Shane Patton he played in “White Lotus,” Lacy says Troy lies somewhere on the spectrum of “douche” to “good guy.
” “In his worst moments, he sees himself maybe worse than he is and has higher expectations for himself than what he’s living up to,” Lacy says. “I think (he) maybe doesn’t have a great barometer for what is it what it is to just be human, what it is to be flawed and trying to be better.” Lacy points out that each of the siblings on the.
