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 [on his role as Charles Gunn on "Angel":] "I don`t think my parents were too happy when I announced that I wanted to be an actor. And then when I told them I was starring in a show about vampires, they were like, `Couldn`t you at least get a role as a nice lawyer or something.` My Mom always wanted me to be a lawyer or a priest. I think they were a little bit surprised by my career choice." [March 18, 2003] [on his role as Charles Gunn on "Angel":] "When I change my lines, I just deliver them and wait for their reaction. I just kind of ad-lib sometimes and they`ll pull me back or they`ll just let it go. When they have a problem with it, they tell me. It`s not that I have to change much, because they usually get it right. I`m glad they don`t dumb him down and make him say stupid things." [March 18, 2003]
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[on his role as Charles Gunn on "Angel":] "Gunn is an activist, a renegade vampire hunter who leads his motley crew of fellow hunters on a personal crusade of execution for reasons that the audience is not yet aware of. He is a tormented soul and a lone ranger, much like Angel, but he has adopted a family of lost and disenfranchised who he will protect at any cost. It`s almost like he`s two people in one, a violent and aggressive warrior, but also someone who desires family and people close to him." [March 18, 2003]
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Gunn, like me, has a James Bond obsession. He would love to be James Bond, and it`s a great role that I would love to be, someday.
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[on his role as Charles Gunn on "Angel":] "Everybody on the set is fantastic and there are so many interesting people. I absolutely love working with David Boreanaz, and Charisma Carpenter I completely adore -- she teaches me to dance. She`s definitely one of my favorite people on the set. And Alexis Denisof is such a dynamic actor. He`s phenomenal. There is so much I can see happening to this character [Gunn], it makes me excited to think about all the ways he can branch out. Charles is a fantastic character. I really love his spirit. He`s so pure and clean and unaffected. I love the extent to which he goes to protect the people he loves. I find that fascinating and admirable." [March 18, 2003]
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It is kind of grandiose, isn`t it? I changed my name at 14 because no one outside of my family could pronounce my first name correctly. My parents are from Panama, and so there`s a primary AND a secondary stress on my first name, Jaime, so it sounds like HIGH-MAY. And my middle name is actually Augusto [Ah-GOOS-toe], so that`s tough too. The funny thing is, I have so many nicknames that no one calls me by my given name anyway. Still, I have thought about changing it just to Jay Richards. - Jay in an interview with EW. (regarding his given name)
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[on his role as Charles Gunn on "Angel":] "What`s ironic is that I don`t think race ultimately had anything to do with me getting the part. When I auditioned, I heard that they were looking at white guys, Latino guys, Asian guys, so they didn`t know where they were going with it."
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Trivia
Says that his mother didn't want him to become an actor; instead, she had hopes of him becoming a lawyer or a priest. In the final season of Angel, Gunn got a special brain spell and became a top Wolfram & Hart lawyer.
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Named #10 of the Top Ten Sexiest Men of the Buffy / Angel universe in a fan poll by Bufy the Vampire Slayer fanzine (2004).
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