Jerzey Hernandes

## Season History

**Jonathan "Jerzey" Hernandes** is a contestant on *Escape the Complex 1*.

Jerzey is best known for his over-the-top charisma. He ran his mouth often until Veronica Alstodt convinced her allies he was playing all sides, making Jerzey the first ejectee of the series.

## Biography

*Retrieved from RLV Network*

**Age**: 22

**Hometown**: Austin, TX

**Current Residence**: New Braunfels, TX

**Occupation**: Videographer

**Three adjectives that describe you**: Friendly, thrilling, warm

**What do you think will be the most difficult part about escaping the complex?**: Entrusting people to solve things for me. I taught myself how to properly use a cinema camera in high school from filming my BMX bros. I make new clients and connections from weekly location scouting, and I am my own editor, publicist, and creator of my YouTube channel (jerzeyintx). My success is banked on genuine, organic merits.

**Do you have a strategy to win the game?**: I'm going in with a smile shiny enough to be on everyone's good side. I plan to lay off the dirty work in the beginning and have my allies take the hit. By the halfway point, I ideally want people to run ideas by me so I can steer them according to my plans.

**What are you afraid of?**: Abandonment, choking, and fanboying on national TV because I scream like my sidechick.

**What do you plan to do if you win the grand prize?**: It's been a dream of mine to create featured films and the prize money would bump up my promotional and distribution game.

**Fun facts about yourself**:

1) I have never visited New Jersey in my entire existence.

2) My proudest accomplishment is selling the first copy of my self-produced one-man movie.

3) I love pranking my homies any chance I get. I could even be pranking them right now.

## Journey

Jerzey immediately formed a group meet-and-greet with Becka Hinden, Kirk Harshaw, Laurett White, and Seder Walon after entering the Chamber. He rotated through Hayden Flank, Lindsey Johnston, and Tommy Frazier before deciding to bud a closer acquaintanceship with Hayden and Seder out of interest for their personal strengths. Confident in his performance during the introduction mixer, Jerzey threw the main objective and instead helped Seder solve the Penthouse puzzle in exchange for safety, only to feel betrayed after Seder bestowed the Plus One advantage to Tommy.

Jerzey later interrupted a meeting between Seder and Veronica Alstodt to discuss the betrayal, unbeknownst Veronica was working with the Donkey Kong Krew and Last Chance Alliance and took the encounter as bait to relay to her other allies, sans Seder, before the fifteen-minute window to converse ran out. Hayden later told Jerzey that he could be shortlisted, prompting the two to scramble for votes to stack against Indri Laghari over her micromanagement of the game. Jerzey was shortlisted next to Becka by Luke Baccarin as the main target, while Laurett shortlisted Indri and Shania Bissinger to fool Jerzey into thinking Indri would be ejected. Jerzey realized he was a goner at the last minute and became the first Escapist bungee dropped from The Complex in a lopsided 6-3-1-0 vote.

### Voting History

 1
 Ejected (6–3–1–0)

## Post-*Escape*

* In October 2018, Jerzey debuted his first feature film he directed, *Pito's*, at select movie theaters around Texas. He won two ICAG (Innovative Cinematic Achievement Gala) accolades for the movie in 2019: Best Motion Picture Directorship and Best Cinematography.
* Jerzey joined the principal photography crew for three RLV Network drama projects including *Crude* and *Your Heart Is a Lie* in 2019, and *TALTS* in 2020.
* Jerzey proposed to his current wife Mesa on January 3, 2020 and got married a month later at a reception in Hawaii.
* Jerzey is currently filming a documentary surrounding the family of a frontline worker during the coronavirus pandemic. Release date to be determined.