Q:  They did re-shoots.  How much did they actually re-shoot?

Jay: Yeah, we did re-shoot a fair bit actually and I don’t think they ended up using a lot of what we re-shot.  I think they ended up going back to the original story which is awesome that we went through all of that a year after, two years after the fact on two different occasions.  I have not seen the latest version so I can’t actually tell you how much of the re-shoots made it in but I know there was a time when they were trying to remove a pretty important, sizeable part of the plot out of it and finding a way to re-shoot their way through that.

Q:  Was it a few days or weeks that you guys re-shot?

Jay:  It was two different four-day weeks so of a year apart.

Q:  It’s the project that will never end.

Jay:  No, never.

Q:  Can you talk about who you play in “She’s Out of My League”?

Jay: I am the “My”, basically. She is a girl called Alice Eve, an English actress.  I play a TSA guy.  I work in the X-Ray machine at the airport in Pittsburgh and through happenstance, she leaves her I-Phone by accident and I come to bring it to her and the romantic comedy develops.  She’s infinitely better looking and more attractive than I am.  I think it’s going to be a really funny movie.  Pittsburgh’s never looked this beautiful.  Everybody is laughing.  I’m trying to be serious.  It’s an amazing town.  I didn’t understand when I got there, the reputation that it has, and my tongue in nowhere near my cheek when I say this, it’s a beautiful, beautiful, amazing town and the people are lovely.  Gorgeous hills.  It’s got the most bridges of any city in the world.  It has the prettiest ballpark in America.  There’s a million different wonderful things about it. 

Q: Nice airport.

Jay: [laughing] The airport, yeah.  Well, I was there for weeks on end.  There is nothing more fun than going through all those security checkpoints and not getting to fly anywhere.

Q:  Did you have to research with real TSA guys?

Jay:  Well, I mean, come one, honestly?  No offense to TSA but really, it’s not the Navy Seals.

Q: How does your career look to you right now?

Jay:  It beats a poke in the face.  Look, I’ve been at it since I was twelve years old; six years in Canadian children’s television, essentially, relative obscurity as far as America is concerned.  Then, I’ve been acting out here basically since I was eighteen.  I’ve ebbed and flowed and had heat and momentum and still don’t actually understand what those entail.  The only thing one can do is try to be consistent.  I just try to do things that I would like to see.  Do stuff that I would enjoy doing.  Is it going to be a worthwhile way to spend my time?  Am I going to enjoy showing up for work every day for four months or whatever.  My family is taken care of.  The rent’s paid.  I can buy catfood and I still have money to have a nice TV and I get to live at home in Montreal.  I got no complaints.

Q: And you can pursue a career from a Montreal base.

Jay:  That’s it.  I have been stubborn about it and it’s worked out so that’s real nice.

Q:  What kind of music are you into and do you play an instrument?

Jay: Yeah. I’ve played drums since I was fourteen.  I’ve played synthesizer for the better part of the last five or six years.  I play drums in a band.  I play synthesizer, I guess it’s a band.  Well, it’s me.  I just make music that I listen to when I play videogames or make heavy stuff to listen to while I’m lifting weights or playing videogames.  I know it’s hard to believe that I lift weights but sometimes I do or so push-ups or something. 

Q:  Who do you listen to when you are just kicking back? 

Jay:  I really like Joy Division and New Order and my favorite band of all time is a band from Montreal called God Speed You Black Emperor and I like My Bloody Valentine a fair bit  Around right now, I quite like a guy from France called M-83 and his new album is really, really nice.  It depends what mood I’m in or how pissed off I am.