Jake's actor, on the complete other hand, was a young teen whose career was just kicking off. This was the first thing he'd ever done that was bigger than a toilet paper commercial (national, mind, it was a toilet paper commercial on national television), and his boundless enthusiasm for the work was a strange, resilient thing that clung on in the face of all obstacle and reason. Like a barnacle.

One of the things he clung to was his admiration of his childhood idol, the very actor who'd inspired him to get into the business in the first place. How cool was it that they got to act together? Today, as with the day before, he ran up to his hero as soon as film stopped rolling. "That was great, huh?" he said cheerfully. "Great job with the, you know, the big scene! It was just like that time in movie 5 where you went down into the tunnels and you had to fight off all the goblins by yourself!!" Jake sometimes had trouble separating his favorite actor from the role he once played.

"Isn't anyone getting you your coffee? Hey, I know, I'll go grab some for you. Just let me get this old man stuff off my face first." Jake had to work hard to sell himself as a 16-year-old on set, but the makeup team worked even harder. Luckily, he'd always been tall for his age. "Cream and sugar, right?"