Scott Brothers: This TV star starred in the biggest disaster movie of all time, and you probably forgot about him!

This Sunday, January 12, TF1 aired on its antenna The Day After Tomorrow, a disaster film released in 2004 and written and directed by Roland Emmerich with Jake Gyllenhaal and Dennis Quaid.

A cult disaster movie

A true nod to the genre, it follows Jack Hall, a famous climatologist who predicted a new ice age. But he never imagined that this could happen in his lifetime.

In the face of this violent and unpredictable climate change that is causing widespread destruction around the world, Jack must convince the President of the United States to evacuate the country to save the millions of people in danger, including his son Sam. , went on a school trip to New York.

Unfazed by the situation, the climatologist embarks on a dangerous rescue mission to join Sam and his friends, who are stuck in minus 20 degrees in the New York Public Library.

Actor from The Scott Brothers in The Day After Tomorrow

Before the world collapses and New York faces another Ice Age, Sam, played by a young Jake Gyllenhaal at the start of his career, competes in an inter-school competition with two of his classmates.

There he meets one JD, a New York high school student, who offers to help them deal with this unprecedented disaster. A secondary character whose face is probably not familiar to fans of the series. Jade is played by Austin Nichols, who has since become famous for playing Julian Baker, Brooke’s boyfriend, in the last four seasons of The Scott Brothers.

This passage in The Day After represents one of the first major roles for the actor, whose career had previously been limited to minor appearances in the series. Therefore, the film gave him the opportunity to reveal himself, and four years later he joined the cast of the Scott brothers.

Austin Nichols went on to play Spencer Monroe in The Walking Dead and also appeared in Bates Motel, Ray Donovan and Walker. Last December, he starred in Messengers of War, a Netflix film directed by Tyler Perry.

For those who missed The Day After when it aired on TF1, the film is now available on Netflix.