After growing up in Monterey, California and later Moscow, Idaho, where he attended the Classical Christian Logos School, he made an early trip to Los Angeles in 2010 hoping to land a commercial. A recommendation from casting director Patti Kalles led to a series of callbacks that secured him the starring role of Joe Lamb in J.J. Abrams’s 2011 sci-fi adventure Super 8, earning a Saturn Award for B…
