Jake Hoyt

Jacob "Jake" Hoyt is the main protagonist of the 2001 Warner Brothers Pictures and Village Roadshow Pictures movie Training Day. He is a rookie cop being trained by Alonzo Harris. 
He is portrayed by , who also portrayed Todd Anderson in Dead Poets Society, Jack Conroy in White Fang and White Fang 2: Myth of the White Wolf, Vincent Freeman in Gattaca, Prince Hamlet in the 2000 film adaptation of Hamlet, Jack Valentine in Lord of War, James Sandin in The Purge, and Brent Magna in Getaway.
==Biography==
Jake started as a typical rookie police officer and started training to be a narcotics detective with 10-year veteran detective Alonzo Harris.
==Personality==
Jake is a rookie who like others started off as rather eager, ambitious, and altruistic. This is shown in his first interactions with Alonzo, who he was quick to impress him in an attempt to receive a promotion during his one-day evaluation. More of his desire to do the right thing as an officer is shown further during the time that he spends around Alonzo, wanting to get drugs and criminals off the streets. 
All in all, this mindset puts him at odds with Alonzo, whom worked outside the law to deal with matters. He also believes that criminals should be locked up as actual justice, as opposed to being beaten or killed (like in the case with Roger). However, this made it easier for the corrupt officer to use and manipulate him for his personal agendas.
Due to his honorable and generous side, he has shown some hesitancy in performing some of the instructions given to him. It is slightly shown when both of them found some young college students buying drugs off some dealer working as an informant, then later being forced to smoke a pipe laced with PCP, but hesitantly did so after having a gun pointed at him and forced. While getting the drugs out of his system, he stopped two drug addicts from raping a teenage school girl (Smiley's little cousin), but was stopped from arresting them by Alonzo.
Despite being a rookie, Jake has proven himself to be courageous and strong-willed, not hesitating to point a shotgun at Alonzo who threatened to shoot him if he didn't take the credit for shooting Roger (who already pointed a gun at him before), not being afraid to take him down with him if the other three officers shot him. He later punched Paul in the face before leaving the room.
Near the end, whereas Alonzo earned the fear and hate of his neighborhood's residents and gangs, Jake earned their respect after fighting against the corrupt officer with the intention of taking him down, to the point where they did the same and allowed him to leave.
==Trivia==
*Jake Hoyt can be seen as the polar opposite to Alonzo, because his is conscientious and selfless, whereas the latter is scheming and selfish.
*At Smiley's residence, Jake admitted to Smiley and his gang that he should've been a firefighter.
*The role originally went to the rapper Eminem. In addition to Eminem, Tobey Maguire, Matt Damon, Christian Bale, Mark Wahlberg, Ryan Phillippe, Chris O'Donnell, David Arquette, Keanu Reeves, the late Heath Ledger, Tom Cruise, Brendan Fraser, and Brad Pitt were also considered for the role of Jake Hoyt.
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