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"Baby Daddy" Star Jean-Luc Bilodeau on Chest Hair, Turtles, & Mall-Crawlers

"Baby Daddy" Star Jean-Luc Bilodeau on Chest Hair, Turtles, & Mall-Crawlers

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Actor Jean-Luc Bilodeau pays a visit to the YH Studio to chat about his hit ABC Family sitcom "Baby Daddy" and an array of other edifying topics, such as body hair, Canadians, "mall-crawlers", and his pet turtle! Find out how his reptilian friend can sometimes get in the way of Jean-Luc's social life!

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Jean-Luc Bilodeau

I want to ask about your turtle. If you just lay him on your chest, he'll just chill out, and he'll stick all his limbs out, and his head out. And then he'll put his head right up against your neck. Oh my God. You feel his little, his little breathing on your neck. It's really cute. Oh my god. Yeah, I never thought I'd be this affectionate with a turtle, but Yeah.

Young Hollywood

What was that?

Jean-Luc Bilodeau

I was. That was just the saying of the night.

Young Hollywood

This is your buddies? Like it looks like a bro night.

Jean-Luc Bilodeau

It was a bro night. We went camping. In Canada. It was in Canada in Vancouver. Yeah, Lake. And so we went camping. That was just I don't know why we started saying that but as soon as I got back to Canada all my buddies are like, "Yo man, you sound like a Californian right now. It's freaking me out." You reminded me of the Saturday Night Live skit, The Californians. Like, I don't even talk like that right now. It's freaking me out. Oh my God. We should just talk like this the whole time. That would be great. Yeah.

Young Hollywood

Um, I can say these things cause I'm a Canadian as well. I feel like we wrote some things that I think we have in common. You're like, huh? Messy, you said you were messy. At one like some in some interview like yonder years ago. You said, I think it was when you were you and Derek were still like

Jean-Luc Bilodeau

We did a People magazine thing and yeah, I was like the messy one and he's the he was the one that cleans up after me and stuff. It's not so true. That's more of like a joke we played but I

Young Hollywood

And then you got a beard going. I mean

Jean-Luc Bilodeau

Yeah, I got a mess messy beard. Actually you know what? This is a solid three weeks. I'm gonna keep it going.

Young Hollywood

Now, does that like continue on down down because you have to do shirtless things like, you know,

Jean-Luc Bilodeau

My chest hair is starting to span. It it for a while. It's just was kinda starting here and it slowly came down and then now it's starting to just like spread. It hasn't quite gotten to the neck but I have family that it just it literally it doesn't stop. It just keeps going. So, I feel like

Young Hollywood

This sounds like Canada and the guys that I dated growing up.

Jean-Luc Bilodeau

I've got some hairy legs. I'm a hairy dude. So, I feel like I'm just going to be a Wolverine one day. I just fully transformed. Hugh Jackman, there's a Hey, the reboot. In twenty years, that's what I'm talking about. We'll just throw it out there. My big break in 2050.

Young Hollywood

We've seen this sort of like the three men and a baby, that sort of like that kind of thing. But why do you think the show has sort of like made it like a fresh take on anything we've seen like that before?

Jean-Luc Bilodeau

Throwing a baby into a young man's life is like like I couldn't imagine it happening to me. Like it just yeah, I would it would be not good.

Young Hollywood

You guys are all naturally so funny. That's not always the case with sometimes you'll meet people that do comedy and they're like so morose and so It's But you guys are so much fun and you're really naturally funny. How does somebody take like maybe for actors out there take a performance and how do you tweak it? Cause you talked about how you tweak certain things that

Jean-Luc Bilodeau

I think it's really important for an actor to just get a visual of what your face is doing. And especially in comedy, it took me a while to understand that the joke doesn't come from like all the crazy faces you can make, you know?

Young Hollywood

Oh my God. Now I know what I've been doing wrong.

Jean-Luc Bilodeau

It's something like that. It's like it doesn't, you know, it's funny but sometimes, you know, when you're watching a TV show, you don't want to see a performance. You want to, you know, be involved in a real true story. And and comedy comes from truth. And so it took me a while to to really examine my work and and and finally realize like I I shouldn't do too many facial expressions with every single joke.

Young Hollywood

Were you a cute baby?

Jean-Luc Bilodeau

I was pretty cute for like a while. I went through phases. I was hideous. Right as I came out.

Young Hollywood

Oh really?

Jean-Luc Bilodeau

No. I was a hideous baby. My brother was gorgeous.

Young Hollywood

Oh, it worked out. Hey, thanks. Thank you. You like to vette a lot. I like to vette a lot too. Do you like to vette a lot?

Jean-Luc Bilodeau

Um, you know what? I just don't like to take myself too seriously. And I I see so many Instagram pages where it's just every photo is just like the pose and like the cool shot, the black and white.

Young Hollywood

I don't know what you're talking about. I don't live in black and white, so I don't feel like taking photos in black and white or videos is appropriate. So, I have a theory about black and white thing. They're just the pictures aren't good enough. So, they just

Jean-Luc Bilodeau

Exactly. So, they're making it black and white to make it look cool.

Young Hollywood

To make it look cool.

Jean-Luc Bilodeau

I like to to first try and make a photo look good in color. But I don't think I ever have done a black and white photo on Instagram.

Young Hollywood

I want to ask about your turtle.

Jean-Luc Bilodeau

Dude, yeah, he uh he's six years old. He's a red eared slider. He's about that big. I post videos of

Young Hollywood

Yeah, you do.

Jean-Luc Bilodeau

him all the time. If you just lay him on your chest, he'll just chill out and he'll stick all his limbs out and his head out. And then he'll put his head right up against your neck. Oh my God. You feel his little his little breathing on your neck. It's really cute. Oh my God. Yeah, I never thought I'd be this affectionate with a turtle but Actually, I went on a date once. And I thought the turtle story would be like a good date story and just cause he asked if I had any pets. I'm like, "Yeah, I have a turtle." And as soon as I started talking about like, you know, it cuddles with me. I never thought like, "Wow, I'm cuddling with a turtle." And I lost the date. It was literally that was the first ten minutes of the date.

Young Hollywood

Well, and good she did you a favor because anybody that can't appreciate a man that loves his turtle.

Jean-Luc Bilodeau

Exactly. Yeah, good for her. No, what do you like say that loud and it's like in my head it's totally fine. You say it loud it's like, "Oh." Okay, I get it. I understand. Like if yeah. Okay. I understand. Like if a girl like told me she was in love with her, you know, pet lizard or something. I just like, "Okay." Like it's nice and cute but I don't know if it's gonna

Young Hollywood

It's not going to work out. Lizard's not hanging out with us tonight.

Jean-Luc Bilodeau

It's not it's not working.

Young Hollywood

I think the grand majority of people watching this right now are going, "Oh."

Jean-Luc Bilodeau

I hope so. And the rest of them

Young Hollywood

So the hiatus, I know you're in Arizona. Did a little road tripping obviously in Canada. We'll road trip. I went to Canada. Um, I was in Arizona for a couple days. I just got back. It was great. It was my first time there. It was fun. What was the last thing the Beebe's thing?

Jean-Luc Bilodeau

Well, it came on one time. And so I figured it's kind of funny. I'll just post a photo about uh about Bieber. But I had the doors off the Jeep. I have a Jeep. So took the top off, doors off.

Young Hollywood

That wasn't even a rental? I thought that like like looked like the ultimate like you're go to Arizona. You're going to go hit some red rock and you're going to

Jean-Luc Bilodeau

No. That's my car. Yeah, that's what I drive LA with, man. It's a mall crawler. It's not a rock crawler.

Young Hollywood

What does that mean?

Jean-Luc Bilodeau

Mall, I I I cruise to the mall and back. Usually jeeps are called rock crawlers.

Young Hollywood

Oh I didn't even know that.

Jean-Luc Bilodeau

Cause they climb rocks and do real manly stuff. And mine is is it looks like a rock crawler but it just takes me around the city streets of LA.

Young Hollywood

What's the chick version of a mall crawler?

Jean-Luc Bilodeau

No, the mall crawler is the chick version of the rock crawler.

Young Hollywood

Okay. So, I drive the chick version. All right, Wolverine. It was great seeing you. Thanks for coming in.

Jean-Luc Bilodeau

Thank you so much. Appreciate it. Twenty years from now we'll be chatting on this couch about, you know, reprise of the Hugh Jackman. Exactly. Oh yeah. I'm down. You set it up.

Young Hollywood

All right, we're going we're going out. We're out. We're out. Canadian.

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PEOPLE MENTIONED

  • Jean-Luc Bilodeau

    Guest being interviewed

  • Derek

    Mentioned as a co-star in a People magazine article

  • Hugh Jackman

    Referenced for his role as Wolverine

  • Bieber

    Mentioned in passing regarding a social media post

FAQ

What TV show does Jean-Luc Bilodeau star in?+
Jean-Luc Bilodeau stars in the ABC Family sitcom "Baby Daddy".
Does Jean-Luc Bilodeau have any pets?+
Yes, Jean-Luc Bilodeau has a pet red-eared slider turtle that he describes as affectionate.
Where is Jean-Luc Bilodeau from?+
Jean-Luc Bilodeau is from Canada, specifically Vancouver.
What is a 'mall crawler' according to Jean-Luc Bilodeau?+
A 'mall crawler' is Jean-Luc Bilodeau's humorous term for his Jeep, which he says he uses to cruise to the mall rather than for off-road rock climbing.
What is Jean-Luc Bilodeau's advice for actors in comedy?+
Jean-Luc Bilodeau advises that the joke in comedy doesn't come from crazy facial expressions, but from truth, and that actors should examine their work to avoid overdoing facial expressions.

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