Here's what you need to learn about the place actor Brandon Baker is now, 20 years after playing Johnny Kapahala on 'Johnny Tsunami.’

The newly released streaming platform Disney+ is the easiest antidote for any millennials suffering from nostalgia. In addition to endless Disney motion pictures, Pixar, Marvel and NatGeo content material, the platform may be bringing again the liked Disney Channel Original Movies of our collective youths.

If asked to call a couple of DCOMs that spring to mind, Smart House, Cadet Kelly and Johnny Tsunami would be among this creator's Top 3. 

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Where is Brandon Baker from Johnny Tsunami now?

Brandon Baker worked his method into our hearts in the 1999 Disney Channel Original, Johnny Tsunami, where he played Johnny Kapahala, a Hawaiian surfer whose family strikes to Vermont.

Intent on no longer becoming a member of his new private school's cohort of preppy skiers, the younger surfer takes up snowboarding with the assist of Sam, a student at an area public school, performed by way of Lee Thompson Young (the eponymous Famous Jett Jackson), who handed away tragically at 29 in 2013.

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Brandon reprised his position as Johnny in the 2014 Johnny Tsunami sequel, Johnny Kapahala: Back on Board, which facilities on the game of dirt boarding. But via 2015, the superstar, who got his appearing start playing Mowgli in Disney's 1998 The Jungle Book: Mowgli's Story, sought after a break from the cameras.

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"I'm grateful for all the opportunities that career gave me and continues to," Brandon mentioned in a up to date interview with Page Six. "But the farther I get away from it, the more I appreciate it and respect people who decide they want to be actors, but I'm more and more grateful that I'm not doing that anymore."

For the previous couple of years, Brandon has "been trying to unlearn my old life," he defined to the outlet. "I think for a while I was really toying with the idea of being in this industry or not, whether that's acting or in some role on production, things of that nature," he stated.

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Three years ago, he packed up his luggage and moved away from California to start a existence in Colorado, along with his then-girlfriend. "Being out here in Boulder has been a very distinct, 'No, you're not doing that anymore,' which is really nice," he stated.

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Brandon is now a marriage officiant.

While Brandon endured to act on Disney's Even Stevens and The Proud Family after his preliminary function in Johnny Tsunami, 2015 marked the yr he put the Hollywood industry at the back of him and instead was a wedding officiant for the cheap marriage ceremony planning company, Simply Eloped.

"I love my job, it's fantastic," he endured to Page Six. "I get to be with people in love, I get to be outside, I get to be with people connecting with people in an emotional way, a specific way and a pretty momentous way."

"I don't know what the next chapter of my life is specifically," he persisted, adding that he is aware of it's going to involve "impacting people's lives in a meaningful way."

We love that Johnny, we mean Brandon, is now living his highest existence. Catch him in Johnny Tsunami, streaming on Disney+ as of late.

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