I may have met Pilot Bunch, who will play Johnny B., the "hype manager" of the teenage Jesus in the Gemstone tv series Teenjus, at a Halloween party a few years ago. No, we didn't hook up.
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Today he looks a lot like my niece before she began transitioning. And coincidentally, their boyfriends look very similar, too.
Pilot was born in Kazakhstan, but grew up in Atlanta, where he will graduate from the Woodward Academy in 2025. His first acting role was in The Lion King, performed at his elementary school. He got an agent at age 11, and began appearing on tv at age 14. To date he has twelve on-screen credits listed on the IMDB, including:
Four episodes of Drama Club (2021), a Nickelodeon mockumentary about a middle school drama club recruitng a football player (Chase Vacnin). Sounds like "High School Musical."
Pilot plays Colin, the chem-class lab partner of focus character Mack (a girl). In an interview in TresA, he says that he loved the character: "witty, sarcastic, and always messing with Curtis (Reyn Doi). Reyn Doi usually plays gay characters, so we can assume that Colin is gay-subtext or gay-vague.
In 2021, Pilot played Vincent, a resident of the Alexandria Safe Zone, in the post-apocalyptic The Walking Dead. "A reckless, immature bully," he and his friends play "chicken" with a child zombie (Augustus Morgan, son of Jeffrey Dean Morgan, who plays antagonist Negan). He says that the role was fun because he got to hang out with Augustus in his zombie makeup.
He also has roles on The Wonder Years, 115 Grains, The Hill, and Red One, and some theater, including Shenandoah. He plays Robert, who is kidnapped by Union soldiers during the Civil War (right, with Caleb Baumann as Gabriel) Robert isn't dead; Gabriel is his best friend, not an angel.
Pilot's biggest role to date is in The Unbreakable Boy (2025), a biographical heartwarmer featuring Austin (Jacob Laval), who has a brittle-bone disorder and is on the autism spectrum. Pilot starts out a bully, but becomes Austin closest friend and supporter. In a feature article in Pop Size, he notes that the role has special significance for him, because his brother is on the autism spectrum
Pilot's Instagram contains no pictures of him with girls, except for this one, but he could hardly help it: it was at a friend's birthday party. Otherwise it's boys all the way down.
More after the break. Caution: Explicit
Here he attends the premiere of Valiant Ones with Chase Stokes of Outer Banks
He means JeCobi Swain, best known as Kevin, son of the lesbian couple in Home Economics (2021-23), and the high school troublemaker Freddy in the film version of Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret (2023).
Based on this evidence and the swishiness of the guy at the Halloween party, I'm going to conclude that Pilot ain't straight.
As of this writing Pilot has been 18 for only four months, so I didn't look for n*de photo. The top guy is from New Orleans, and the guy on the left is from Hawaii.
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