Ultimately, I think it's just going to get you that exposure, get you in that door, get you that recognition that will hopefully get you opportunities.

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.