Jackson Robert Scott appeared on the teen idol site with the notice that he played Georgie in It (2017), a movie based on the 1986 Stephen King novel about an transdimensional being who usually manifests as Pennywise the Clown. I never read the novel or saw any of the movies, but I heard that one of the "losers" who combat "It" has been subjected to homophobic fanboy howls of "he can't be gay! He's just a teenager!" Presumably Jackson played the gay one.
Nope, that's Richie Tozer (Finn Wolfhard). Georgie is the younger brother of focus "loser" Bill Denbrough, who gets sucked down into a storm sewer in It's first appearance.
Left: Bill is played by Jaeden Martel as a teenager, James McAvoy as an adult.
Finn Wolfhard is too famous for a profile, and it looks like Jackson is working his way to becoming a bonafide muscleman, so I'll continue.
Jackson was born in 2008 in Phoenix, Arizona, and in 2014 started training at at CGTV , a young actors' "incubator" featuring acting lessons with celebrity coaches and connections to media professionals. He started doing commercials almost immediately, and broke into on-screen acting in 2015, playing a boy kidnapped by a psycho on an episode of Criminal Minds.
2017 was Jackson's annus miribilis. He played Georgie in It.
Bodie, the son in the family investigating paranormal gateways, in the pilot of Locke & Key.
The young Troy Otto, who will grow up to run a ranch with his brothers in the zombie Apocalypse series Fear the Walking Dead.
The grown-up Troy (Daniel Sharman) is queer-coded, and has a nearly-canonical romance with probably-bi Nick (Frank Dillane, left) .
The short Skin (2018) won an Oscar: In a working-class town, a black man smiles at a white boy (Jackson), and his father objects to the interracial fraternization, resulting in a race war.
But The Prodigy (2019) was rated "one of the worst horror movies of the year": is the cute kid/killer (Jackson) possessed by a supernatural entity, or just bad?
Timothy Richardson (left) played Handsome Man. Don't be shy, spoon with him.
Next Jackson returned to Bodie (actually spelled Bode) in the supernatural horror/fantasy Locke and Key (2020). He's got a gay uncle (Aaron Ashmore), and his hetero-horny older brother is played by gay actor Connor Jessup.
And four episodes of Wandavision (2021), as the body reference for Billy Maximoff (Julian Hilliard), son of the witch-turned-1950s housewife Wanda Maximoff.
More after the break