Manny Jacinto has already been a rom-com leading man in the internet’s collective imagination for so long that it’s a little jarring to realize just how large the gulf between the projections and reality had become. Online, the 37-year-old actor has for years now been a subject of TikTok thirst edits and calls for him to nab the lead in the most anticipated book-to-screen adaptations of the day, ever since he rose to fame playing handsome dummy for the ages Jason Mendoza in NBC’s The Good Place . But offline, his movie career was until recently more memorable for what hadn’t happened for him than what had—despite Jacinto securing a spot in the ensemble of one of the biggest movies of the past five years, Top Gun: Maverick , none of his dialogue made it into the film’s final cut

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