Actor Jonah Blechman on a roll
05 APR 2021. Photos courtesy of publicist.

Jonah Blechman is a Los Angeles-based actor who is definitely on a roll. This year, a year in which most of us are still licking our wounds from the quarantine, he can be seen in not one, not two, not three, but four new projects! Jonah’s face will be everywhere, so you better get used to it. 

"My love of acting became rooted in its innate permission to be out of control in a controlled environment,” says Blechman. “That freedom and safety satiates this inherent, passionate curiosity I have to experience and express humanity.”  

First up, the re-release (with new footage) of the 2006 gay classic Another Gay Movie. That film’s director, Todd Stephens, also recently teamed up with Blechman to make Swan Song, which co-stars Jennifer Coolidge and the legendary Udo Kier. “Working with Udo and Jennifer on what is surely Udo’s greatest role was a riot and true honour. They are both such different actors with different styles. It was a real dance to be some of the connective tissue between them.” 

Blechman can also be seen in the upcoming horror movie Claw. “It’s a horror hybrid comedy with a dinosaur...what more can I say - absurd and hysterical!” And to top it all off, he will also star in the Revry TV series Pet Peeves, as a newly paroled pet psychic who is determined to restart his career, only to discover the past won’t stay buried for long. “The concept of going intimately into the lives of people and their pets totally titillated my funny bone and was equally fascinating to explore. Oh, what our animals could tell about us!”

In a career spanning over three decades, Blechman’s first role had him breaking boundaries by kissing Leonardo DiCaprio in the critically acclaimed This Boy’s Life.  Blechman’s curiosities have led him to successfully dive deep into alternate life paths including being an American Ballet Theatre dancer (trained by Baryshnikov, no less), an Orthodox Jew, a fashion designer, a publicist, and a TV network entrepreneur. Once the pandemic subsides, Blechman is set to star in two feature films in Prague with award-winning director Wiktor Grodecki, and is preparing to star in and direct his opus feature Ball Room. 

With all this work, does he have any time for romance? Stay tuned to find out.