![]() ![]() Far too often scripts are being written with race in mind, but the subject matter doesn’t lend itself to any conversation on race. PARKER: From what I know-unless Jesse had other ideas. So I didn’t have to audition, per se, but there was a meeting where we both realize we were on the same page.īROWN: Were you always going to play Ben as opposed to one of the other characters? It made me want to see if I could embody a voice that would speak to it and create a filmic discourse. Reading the script, something I responded to right away-something that really dealt with the human condition, the intimacy of relationships and how a lot of it is going to be farmed out to social media channels. We’re going to figure it out.” Just to hear Jesse speak so passionately about something-a project that meant so much to him-made it mean a lot to me. An hour later, we were like, “We’re going to do this thing together no matter what. We met in a café with Adam, the producer. Is he related to Ed Zwick?” And they were like, “Yes, it’s his son.” I thought, “If that fruit doesn’t fall far from the tree, whatever it is, it could be interesting.” I was in New York doing a film, and they said that the director had seen a film I’d done called Arbitrage and wanted to talk. ![]() I got a call from my team saying that a director wanted to meet me named Jesse Zwick. “The director can take in this hotel and the colors and create a vision that will go into a film.”ĮMMA BROWN: Did you originally audition for the role of Ben in About Alex? I think the director does the same thing,” he continues. “The one thing I love about acting,” he explains, “is that you can sit on a bench in Central Park and learn enough to develop a character and allow that person to speak and be authentic. This summer Parker, whose past credits include The Great Debaters (2007), Ain’t Them Bodies Saints (2013), and Arbitrage (2012), will direct his first feature. In reality, however, Ben is dealing writer’s block and imposter syndrome-the feeling that he’ll never be able to live up to the expectations of those who claim to love him. Parker plays writer Ben, the anchor of the group who always seemed just a little bit smarter, shinier, luckier, and more talented than his friends. It’s been a decade since they left college (Yale, to be specific), but each relationship still has its own distinct emotional baggage-a not-so-hidden undercurrent of envy, desire, or hurt. ![]() When failed actor Alex (Ritter) attempts suicide, his five college best friends try to rally around him in his father’s dilapidated country home. Co-starring Aubrey Plaza, Max Minghella, Jason Ritter, Max Greenfield, Maggie Grace, and Jane Levy, About Alex is a bittersweet reunion film heavily indebted to The Big Chill. The 34-year-old actor has two very different films currently screening at the Tribeca Film Festival: Every Secret Thing, adapted by Nicole Holofcener and directed by documentary filmmaker Amy Berg, and About Alex by new writer-director Jesse Zwick. PHOTO COURTESY OF JAMI SAUNDERS/FOOTPRINT FEATURES. ABOVE: (LEFT TO RIGHT) MAX GREENFIELD, NATE PARKER, MAGGIE GRACE, JASON RITTER, AUBREY PLAZA, MAX MINGHELLA, AND JANE LEVY IN ABOUT ALEX. ![]()
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