Jacob Tremblay, 16, Is All Grown Up For Rare Red Carpet Photo 7 Years After ‘Room’: Then & Now Photos

Jacob Tremblay isn’t truthful small anymore! The actor, who roseate to stardom aft his 2015 critically acclaimed movie with Brie Larson, Room, debuted, is present 16 years aged and each grown up, arsenic seen successful the beneath image. Jacob took to Twitter connected Saturday, Oct. 22 to amusement however overmuch helium has changed implicit the years with a side-by-side photograph of himself astatine his latest reddish carpet premiere and his younger aforesaid (seen here) — and shocked fans successful the process. The photograph connected the near shows a younger Jacob posing connected the reddish carpet with a thumbs-up, and the photograph connected the close shows him grinning with his hands successful his pockets astatine the 2022 Animation Is Film festival implicit the weekend, wherever Netflix’s My Father’s Dragon premiered.

Jacob Tremblay poses astatine the BFI London Film Festival screening of ‘My Father’s Dragon’ connected Oct. 8, 2022 (Photo: Brett D. Cove / SplashNews)

“how it started vs however it’s going…” Jacob wrote alongside the image, prompting shocked replies from fans who inactive presumption him arsenic the small bot they met years ago. “Nope. I garbage to judge clip is moving that fast…not connected my watch,” 1 idiosyncratic tweeted back. “Okay successful my brain, ROOM came retired similar 2 years ago….when it was SEVEN?!? what is time?” a 2nd amazed instrumentality questioned. Yet different instrumentality successful disbelief demanded Jacon to “de-age” himself. “Nope. Absolutely not. DE-AGE YOUR SELF RIGHT NOW,” they begged.

Jacob Tremblay smiles astatine the ‘Room’ premiere successful March 2016 (Photo: Aflo/Shutterstock)

Jacob has been acting professionally since 2013, but arsenic mentioned above, helium got his breakout relation successful Room, which received respective Oscar nominations. A memorable infinitesimal for Jacob’s fans came successful 2016 erstwhile helium won the grant for Best Young Actor astatine the Critics’ Choice Awards and couldn’t scope the microphone. Actor Bradley James lowered the microphone and held it up to the adorable 9-year-old’s rima truthful helium could talk into the mic.

Since the adorable moment, Jacob has proved to beryllium a powerhouse successful the acting industry, snagging roles successful films specified arsenic 2017’s Wonder, 2019’s Good Boys, and the ace palmy animated Disney film, Luca, successful 2021. The Canadian teen besides teamed up with chap Canadian star Justin Bieber, portraying a younger mentation of him successful the music video for “Lonely.”

Up adjacent for the young prima is the highly anticipated live-action mentation of The Little Mermaid, successful which helium volition prima other Halle Bailey arsenic Ariel by playing Ariel’s champion person Flounder. While promoting Luca with Collider, Jacob described playing Flounder arsenic “so fun”. He added, “I truly similar what they did with Flounder’s quality design. I won’t accidental excessively much, but it’s truly cool.”