I think it is important that you care about the characters, and you are not just waiting for the next action sequence but have a vested interested in what happens to them.

Ashmore also had starring roles on Animorphs as Jake Berenson and In a Heartbeat as Tyler Connell. Ashmore starred as Cadet Major Brad Rigby in Cadet Kelly a Disney Channel original film which aired in 2002 and he also guest-starred as Eric Summers in two episodes of Smallville a series on which his brother later got the role of Jimmy Olsen(ironically he played a villain while his brother played a good guy). Ashmore was cast in Adam Green's 2010 dramatic thriller Frozen as Joe Lynch.

Shawn Robert Ashmore (born October 7 1979) is a Canadian film and television actor perhaps best known for his role as Jake in the Animorphs television series and Iceman in the X-Men films.