Jonathan Lipnicki says “the best is yet to be” in his career (exclusive)

Jonathan Lipnicki’s Hollywood trip has been long.

At the age of 5 played with Tom Cruise and Renée Zellweger 1996’s Jerry Maguire. He also had major roles in the 1999 Stuart Little2000s The little vampire and 2002’s Like Mike.

“I had some really good things that happened when I was younger,” says the actor exclusively. But he admits that the hope from children as an actor to adult spectacle was a little rough. “It’s perfectly good to say that I’m not where I want to be career,” he says, which he is “okay” with at the moment. “Everything we do in this life is almost impossible.”

“This is what I want to do for the rest of my life, and I think you just have to think that it will happen and do everything to take action in the right direction,” he says.

After high school, during which he intentionally cut down his career, Lipnicki attended and took acting courses, which he says was the “best” he has done. Then he began to emerge in more independent films, as did Los Angeles stage productions.

“I’ve had a half and a half career where there are some things that were really good and no one saw them,” he says. But while adding, he has not had any “regret”, the other half of his projects taught him to be “careful” about what he chooses.

“To be completely honest, I said no to about five films over the past year,” admits Lipnicki. “I really want to turn this ship.”

“And I pray every night for clarity on where I need to go, and I am convinced that the best is still for me,” he says. “And I think you just have to believe it. If you should strive for this, you make yourself a bear so as not to dream big.” Lipnicki has also been branched to producing.

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He says his latest project – Tbs’ Joe Schmo -show – Be “a step in the right direction.” The series involves pranking a “normal” person who thinks they are in the lead role in a reality show, but it really is a huge gag. Lipnicki plays a fictional, egotistic version of himself. It was a step “outside (his) comfort zone”, which was what he was “most proud of,” he adds.

“As an actor who grows up in this industry, you want to be on your best behavior, and I have to be on my worst,” he says. “It was something that strengthens it in a strange way.”

Joe Schmo -show A broadcast Tuesdays at TBS.