Jonathan Lipnicki Reveals Why He Stopped Acting for a Long Time: It Wasn’t High School, I Just ‘Wasn’t a Very Good Actor at One Point’
variety.comZack Sharf Jonathan Lipnicki was one of the most beloved child actors of the late 1990s and early 2000s thanks to roles in “Jerry Maguire,” “Stuart Little” and “Like Mike,” but his acting career seemingly vanished in the 2010s.
In a new interview with /Film, the 31-year-old actor got honest about his acting absence. Lipnicki starred in short films and direct-to-DVD projects for a stretch of time in the early 2010s, but his career never returned to the highs of his child stardom days. “The biggest transition for me was…I didn’t work for a long time,” Lipnicki said. “And people always frame that as, ‘Oh, I went to high school,’ and whatnot.
And that’s the story that people tell sometimes when they don’t work. Or if they’re a child actor or whatever, they took time off.
I did take time off, in the sense that it wasn’t the only priority I had. But I didn’t work because I just didn’t work. I didn’t really get any roles for a while.” Lipnicki said growing up and going to high school was not the main factor behind his hiatus from acting.
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