Two and a half years ago actor Jay Hernandez was about to quit. He’d been acting since he was 18 and while he could always wangle some sort of acting job, he wasn’t excited by the work.
“I was ready to walk away from it,” he says. “I had a lot of moments like that because Hollywood is not a meritocracy. You can’t earn your place anywhere. You can get to a place, but you have to constantly fight for that. You’re constantly treading water. And I don’t love jumping through the hoops,” he says, seated on a frieze couch in a coffee bar in Beverly Hills, California.
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