Here are some interviews w/ ryan (more coming)
"I think that doing this show, you learn a lot, because they deal with issues that everybody goes through, and by acting and reading the scripts, us as real people can learn how to react to things when we go through them," says 13-year-old Ryan Cooley, who plays J.T., the class clown of "Degrassi".

Ryan's castmates quickly gather around him, clamouring for their turn to discuss "Degrassi". Although they may agree with Ryan that the show can provide them with a blueprint of a future crisis, they decide to focus on other, lighter aspects of filming the series.

I feel like we have to live up to a lot," says Ryan Cooley, who plays J.T. "Because the old Degrassi was just so big in Canada."

"I want to continue acting, and I also want to be a pilot," says Ryan. "So I'm going to try to do both when I grow up, like John Travolta."