Jake mcdorman aquamarine6/4/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() When the show ran its course after a single season, McDorman moved to Showtime's "Shameless" to play Emmy Rossum's love interest for two seasons. The following year, he was initially cast as a recurring love interest for Laura Prepon's lead in the pilot for "Are You There, Chelsea?" (NBC, 2012), but then replaced comic Jo Koy as a series regular, playing the bartender at the sports bar where the main characters worked. When the program concluded its network run, McDorman pursued more mature and dramatic projects, and landed the title role in "The Craigslist Killer" (Lifetime, 2011), a TV-movie based on the real-life crimes of Philip Markoff. That same year, he returned to series regular work on "Greek" as the popular president of a fraternity. Within a few years, he had graduated to romantic leads in teen-oriented features like "Aquamarine" and "Bring It On: All or Nothing" (2006), as well as smaller roles in mainstream films like "Live Free or Die Hard" (2007). After making his screen debut in an industrial film about the Boy Scouts, McDorman worked steadily as a juvenile player on episodic television with guest turns on "Run of the House" (The WB, 2003-2004) and as a series regular on "Quintuplets" (Fox, 2004-2005). Born John Allen McDorman IV in Dallas, Texas on July 8, 1986, he developed an interest in acting in his early teens, and trained at the Dallas Young Actors Studio while completing high school. Although next time, I think I'll pick the movie.Actor Jake McDorman successfully transitioned from leads in youth-oriented films and television projects like "Aquamarine" (2006) and "Greek" (ABC Family, 2007-2011) to adult roles on "Shameless" (Showtime, 2011-) and "Manhattan Love Story" (ABC 2014). All in all, it wasn't a great movie, but it picks up in the second half and finishes well, so it was a pretty decent way to spend almost two hours on a cold Saturday afternoon. I wasn't expecting much from Sara Paxton (the titular mermaid Aquamarine) judging by the painful "I see we're going to have to take this slow: Mer Maid" in the trailers, but she ended up doing okay. And I was extremely, pleasantly surprised. I knew it wasn't exactly fair writing her off for being a singer, but that's what I did. I wasn't expecting much out of JoJo (bold and strong Hailey) at all. Her over-the-top mugging drives me insane. I thought her early Unfabulous days were good, but now I can barely stand to watch the show. I think Emma Roberts (timid and diminutive Claire) may be a rare star who started out acting fairly well and is getting worse. ![]() But in the end I stayed for the movie, giving me plenty of time to think over my criticisms. I must admit I was much more entertained with thinking of ways that I could sneak in to The Hills Have Eyes, which was playing at the theater across from ours. The movie starts off extremely slow and was, in my opinion, painful to watch. So fifteen dollars later we were all nestled in. I was pushing for Failure to Launch or She's the Man, but my sister was determined to see Aquamarine. I promised my sister I would take her to a movie for her birthday and buy her popcorn a few weeks ago, and today was the day we settled on. ![]()
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