He had the door before Hollywood came knocking on his door.
Jonathan Bennett moved to New York at the age of 19, hoping to land a role on Broadway. However, his first job was working as a doorman for his fashion boutique.
“I didn’t have any experience, so I thought, ‘Okay, I can stand here and open doors,'” said Bennett, 42. “And they were hiring, so I took the job four times. I did it for about a month,” Bennett, 42, told the Post.Meat processing area now closed designer clothing store jeffrey.
“And I realized that was too boring. I couldn’t do it.”
He then worked as a bellhop at the Mercer Hotel in SoHo “for a short time.”
“Then I booked my first commercial, which was for Playtex tampons, and we shot it on a roller coaster in Coney Island,” Bennett said. She is currently starring in Broadway’s “Spamalot,” which runs through April 7 at St. Paul’s Grand Theatre. james theater.
The Rossford, Ohio, native dropped out of college to pursue a career in acting and got his big break playing Lindsay Lohan’s unrequited love interest Aaron Samuels in the 2004 cult film Mean Girls.
He still keeps in touch with Lohan and sent his former co-star his best wishes after filming. birth of her son last year.
“I reach out to Lindsey from time to time,” he said. “I congratulated her on having her baby. Yes, we keep in touch here and there.”
The actors and the cast of Mean Girls, including Rachel McAdams and Amanda Seyfried, believe that the film, which inspired the Broadway musical of the same name and second film, will one day become so popular. He said he couldn’t imagine it.
“We were a bunch of kids shooting a movie in Canada…we didn’t realize what we were shooting at the time,” he said.
“I knew it was going to be interesting, but I didn’t know what was going to happen.”
Although Bennett had a career on screen, he had no time on Broadway until January this year when he landed the role of Lord Robin in the musical based on the 1975 classic comedy “Monty Python and the Holy Grail.” I couldn’t make my dream come true.
An emotional video of reality TV star and actor James Vaughn breaking the news to her husband has been received. Bennett’s TikTok page has been viewed 1.7 million times. — but Bennett said it was originally intended for their eyes only.
“I was like, ‘You know what?'” I’m going to record this for our memories. ”. . “I knew he would be excited,” he said.
“I didn’t expect what his reaction would be…and it was so fun and so beautiful that I thought, ‘Let’s just share it. I hope it inspires other people to follow their dreams.’ .”
His Broadway debut also received a thumbs up from former actor Whoopi Goldberg, who saw the show last week.
“It was funny. When I came backstage to see her, she looked at me and said, ‘Well done,’ and smiled, but she was talking to someone behind me. “I didn’t really react because I thought it was,” he said. He said.
“And I turned around and there was no one there, so I thought, ‘Me?'” And she said, “Yeah, it’s you.” And I was like, ‘Oh my god, thank you so much.’ ”
Bennett’s former co-star Steve Martin, who played the stepfather in the 2005 family comedy Cheaper by the Dozen 2, lent his voice, the voice of God, to the Spamalot production.
The card Martin gave him nearly 20 years ago when he finished filming the movie still holds a meaningful place in his heart.
“It just said ‘Jonathan’. Nice acting. Exclamation point. I love you, Steve,” he recalled.
“And I thought, ‘I’ll take it.'”
