Back in the ’90s and early 2000s, Jonathan Taylor Thomas was pretty much everywhere.
He also starred as Tom Sawyer in 1995.
Of course, his filmography is only a piece of his story.
Here are a few interesting details about JTT you might not have known.
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Apparently, Thomas was asked to layer on the SPF whenever he was filming in a sunny location.
“It’s easy to get twisted around in this crazy business,” he said.
Years later, it seems that Thomas’s easygoing attitude towards fame paid off.
His number one idol at the time, he toldNickelodeon Magazine, was Ron Howard.
“It’s hard to be a kid in this business,” Thomas said.
“He defied all the odds as a child actor and became a successful director.”
He went on to produce classics like “A Beautiful Mind” and “Arrested Development.”
Needless to say, Opie Taylor sure figured out how to transition from child star to Hollywood powerhouse.
Thomas dreamed of following in Howard’s footsteps and becoming an acclaimed director and producer in his own right.
As a young kid, he worked out of Sacramento (where he grew up) and San Francisco.
“And they actually have quite a bit of the industry there.”
“I just happened to come down here and things started happening,” he explained.
“That was great, it was a lot of fun,” he said.
“It kind of was the preface for doing a live performance for ‘Home Improvement.’
I think that kind of helped.”
According to his mother, Claudine, Thomas showed an affinity for fishing from the young age of 4.
Added Thomas, “I can’t really put the rod and reel down.
Everywhere I go, I carry my fishing rod.”
He also caught a 20-pound orange starfish there.
“This thing had 16 arms and it caught onto my hook.
I threw it back,” he said.
“I throw most of my fish back.”
Even as Thomas' career continued to flourish, he made his education a priority.
“This year, we’ll see.
“It was a novel experience for me.”
“I was a little confused at why he didn’t want to do this whole year …
I mentioned [publicly] that I was confused.
I don’t think he liked that.”
“It’s a pretty sore point around here,” she said.
“I think there were a lot of bad feelings all along.
“I worked next door to him on ‘Home Improvement.'”
In 2013, Thomas was even spotted attending Fishel’s wedding to her first husband, Tim Belusko.
He did not act in any of the episodes that he directed.
As Keegan revealed during an interview withBuzzFeed, their friendship even survived a relatively intense accident.
According to Keegan, the pair often played basketball together in between takes.
“There was a crew that kind of ran around with us,” he recalled.
However, one of these basketball sessions led to some dental drama for Keegan.
“I do have one story about playing basketball with JTT.
We were between shoots and he hit my tooth and knocked my tooth out,” he confessed.
“Not out, but he killed the root.
Seems that JTT has officially decided the private life is what he wants now.
Back in his heyday, he often participated in photoshoots with dogs, as noted byBuzzFeed.
At the time of the interview, he was 14 years old.
But apparently, the 16-year-old wasn’t too worried about his stature.
Although Thomas continued to grow, that growth spurt never came.
