Jake T. Austin Apparently Asked Nat Wolff To Take His Drug Test And Steal Set Furniture For Him, And I’m Gonna Need Someone To Go Check On Hollywood’s Children
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Greetings, earthlings. If you're like me and watched Wizards of Waverly Place and The Naked Brothers Band growing up, boy, do I have the crossover story for you today.
Alright, let's get into it. Nat went onto The Zach Sang Show last week and had some rather interesting stories to share about his old-time New Years Eve costar and former high school peer, Jake T. Austin.
Nat said he had one memory of going to school together with Jake, which was when Jake asked him to pee in a cup for him because he was getting drug tested for his show. Nat said, "He owes me 'cause I did pee in a cup for him and I technically passed it."
Nat and host Zach are longtime friends, so the incident reminded Zach of another high school experience with Jake. Zach said, "I forgot that he went to that school and then he wanted to fight me one time at a party."
Oh, to be a child in Hollywood.
Nat replied, "He never tried to fight me, he was always really sweet to me." But then he continued to tell ANOTHER story about Jake. Apparently, Jake asked Nat to help him steal furniture from the set of The Fosters so he could furnish his house.
Nat said, "I was in LA, he was doing this show. ... But he was saying 'I need to get some furniture so I'm gonna steal some furniture off the set. Do you want to help me steal some furniture off the set?' And I said, 'That sounds illegal, and I'm not gonna do that.'"
Nat continued, "I remember one of my other friends did help him take like a desk or something, and he got caught trying to take [it]. He's like, 'They don't even use it! It's there for the whole year. I'll bring it back before the next season!' I'm like, 'Dude, I think you gotta get your own desk.' That's a true story."
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IDK why I know all Jake T. Austin's dirty laundry now, but here we are.
Anyway, clips from the interview circulated on TikTok, and people were wondering if this was part of the reason Jake abruptly left his character on The Fosters.
In case you didn't watch the show, Jake played Jesus Adams Foster in Seasons 1–2 of the show, but he was replaced by Noah Centineo for Seasons 3–5.
Jake actually did come forward and say why he left the show. In a 2019 interview with Flaunt Magazine, he said at the time he fell into “the trap of being in Hollywood, running with the wrong crowd, making some bad choices and also not taking the work seriously.”
Looking back at that time in his life, he said, "I started losing the sense of the love and passion of things I took for granted. I started not remembering my lines, not taking my craft as seriously as an actor should. That started happening on the second series, on The Fosters, when I was 18 or 19 and I was going through a lot of periods; who do I follow, who do I associate with, influences and things like that, and I just think that there are certain decisions that I made in the past that looking back I would definitely do differently."
He said being recast “was probably the best thing that could have happened to me, because it prevented me from getting too big for my britches and really prevented my behavior from getting worse.”
I'm glad to hear that he got himself back on track.
As for Nat, he and his brother Alex Wolff released Table for Two earlier this month, which is their first studio album release in 12 years.
The brothers are also busy acting — Nat has a lead role in Prime Video's The Consultant, which came out in February. Alex starred in the horror films Hereditary and Old and has an upcoming role in Oppenheimer, which releases July 21 this year.
