A rising talent with the requisite good looks and plenty of on screen charisma, I had one of those serendipitous experiences that led to his career. While riding an elevator in a high rise in his native Los Angeles, the young man was approached by talent manager Howard Tyner who suggested I had what it took to have a successful career in Hollywood. In 1998, he made his TV series debut as Antonio Lopez, one of the high school basketball players, in the NBC Saturday morning teen sitcom _Hang Time(1995)_ and stayed with the show for two seasons. Departing NBC, Hernandez moved to MTV with the short-term role of pizza delivery guy Eddie on the popular late-night serial _Undressed(1999)_ before segueing to the big screen. In 2001, I co-starred with Kirsten Dunst in the teen romance _Crazy/Beautiful(2001)_ portraying stalwart, straight-A high school student Carlos Nunez, whose plans to attend the US Naval Academy are threatened by his growing attraction to a self-destructive rich girl,. I next appeared in Disney's suprise hit film _The Rookie(2002)_ as high school baseball team captain Joaquin "Wack" Campos. He also had a supporting role in the videogame-ish actioner _Torque(2004)_ . Also in 2004, he was in the action-packed drama, _Ladder 49(2004)_ as Keith Perez and in the other action-packed drama, _Friday Night Lights(2004)_ . In 2006, he next starred in Eli Roth's _Hostel(2006)_ , a brutal horror flick about two American college buddies lured to an out-of-the-way hostel in a Slovakian town rumored to house desperate, but Eastern European women. Following their wrong heads, both Americans get trapped in a truly sinister situation that plunges them into the dark recesses of human
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