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Actor’s Journey: Jake Milton Starring as Himself by Taylor McKay Hathorn
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ake Milton’s first taste of acting came when he an empty home but found himself trapped with the lady tling with guilt after surviving a school shooting. Prior to accepting the role, Milton had done shortreenacted scenes from “The Father of the Bride” of the house. Milton’s early success allowed him to network with film and web-series work. His favorite, “Grief Monster,” after his mother showed the 1991 film to him and was inspired by the COVID-19 panhis siblings. “‘Father of the Bride’ demic. “I loved it because of what I and II were staples at my house, and it was birthed out of,” Milton says. they still don’t get old for me,” Milton “There’s not much growing in the recalls. But his true awakening came a world; people feel halted and stunted. little later when he watched “Titanic” (This movie) was about getting to be for the first time. resilient in that way.” “I remember feeling emotional at Resilience is nothing new to the end (of the movie), and I love beMilton, who spent the last three years ing able to bring that to people. Film caring for a dying relative. “They were gives you the freedom to be emotional a huge supporter of me and always when in life, we pull back,” Milton helped me, and this was a time when tells the Jackson Free Press. they needed someone to help them, Although Milton acknowledges and I did that,” he says. that many actors “cut their teeth” by Jake Milton played Henry Lyle, a teacher who survives a school shooting, in local Milton plans to carry these lesperforming in plays and that he got his filmmaker Chris Wesley Moore’s 2019 feature film, “A Stranger Among The Living.” sons of resilience into his future career. start on the stage, he always knew that “I look forward to continuing to work, and I hope to his goal was screen acting. “I did ‘MASH’ (onstage), and other actors and directors. “Some people say that if you someone asked if I wanted to audition for an independent don’t have an agent, you don’t have a career. There’s some get substantial work—work that means something to me,” he says. “I hope that leads towards working with people that film. I hoped it wasn’t a serial killer,” Milton quips. truth to that, but it’s still possible to get out there,” he says. Milton’s own career arc proves his theory, as he com- I’ve looked up to and respect, whether it’s someone who’s That first opportunity thrust Milton into the spot- light, as he received the leading role in “Captive,” which, pleted his first role in a feature film earlier this year. “A known or someone who comes along and isn’t.” just as he had hoped, was not a horror movie. It was Stranger Among the Living,” which local filmmaker Chris Follow Milton on Instagram @the_only_jakemilton. instead the story of a thief who had expected to burglarize Wesley Moore directed, relates the story of a teacher wres-
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