Conversations with Jacob Huey Correa

Today we’d like to introduce you to Jacob Huey Correa.

Hi Jacob, it’s an honor to have you on the platform. Thanks for taking the time to share your story with us – to start maybe you can share some of your backstory with our readers?
Of course. Thank you so much for having me. I actually got my start with the arts in middle school. I had wanted to perform from a young age, and I decided one summer to audition for Pageant of the Masters in Laguna Beach [2009]. To my surprise, they ended up casting me. It was a lot of fun. I loved the excitement around every show. It inspired me to continue pursuing the arts through high school (in the theater) and eventually after as a career path (in the film industry). I’ve been obsessed with movies and film in general since as far back in my childhood as I can remember. I’m excited to be active in the film industry now as an adult.

I’m sure it wasn’t obstacle-free, but would you say the journey has been fairly smooth so far?
Not in the slightest. I moved up to LA for the first time in 2018 (I was 22). I did the whole “auditioning” thing and got lots of “no”s. I joined an artist coalition at one point and was with them for a while. With the artist coalition, I worked on creating short film student film projects with other industry hopefuls and delved into filmmaking on a very small scale, but was dealing at the same time with my grandmother with her battle with cancer, which made it difficult for me to balance my pursuit of my career and care for her and be present with my family during all of that.

Over the course of this journey, I’ve also dealt with nightmare roommates, losing everything at one point and having to move back home for a year, bouncing from survival job to survival job, not-so-great living place to living place, and eventually losing my grandmother to the cancer–the list goes on. Life throws things at you, but when you have a vision of what you want for your life, the vision pulls you. You just have to keep moving. The key is to not stop moving and to never quit.

Can you tell our readers more about what you do and what you think sets you apart from others?
I eventually went to film school for film production (I’m an alumni of Los Angeles Film School). Along the way, I’ve gotten opportunities to act, too. I wanted to act long before I wanted to work as a crew member (I started on the stage), so I’ve enjoyed that. I’ve gotten to this neat place in my life where I enjoy both. I take what I can get.

We’re always looking for the lessons that can be learned in any situation, including tragic ones like the Covid-19 crisis. Are there any lessons you’ve learned that you can share?
I learned and witnessed that one thing people can do if the world is on lockdown is lean into the arts and storytelling as an escape and for comfort. What we do as artists matters more than we might think.

Contact Info:

• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jakehueycorrea/
• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/jakehueycorrea
• Other: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm13377226/?ref_=ext_shr_lnk