There’s a giant world out there that needs your help.Īnd if that fails, there’s always armpit farts. You don’t get to complain unless you take responsibility for whatever problem you’re complaining about: the environment, civil rights, whatever. Acting feels a bit icky because it’s a selfish enterprise, but how dare you make it all about you. Pinkham: I find that a lot of my peers and alumni younger than me have these blinders on. In fact, we’re here at Sardi’s… That hurts, so I can only do three minutes of that. I have lots of levels, and I can do my leg, I can do my neck. If you had to get up in front of your peers, what would you say?īiggs: I’d probably do about 20 minutes of armpit farts. In the play, Heidi delivers an extemporaneous address to a group of her fellow alums. Pinkham: The lead really leads, and Lizzie has done that in a beautiful, subtle, smart way. She doesn’t take herself or any of this too seriously but is an absolute professional. And Lizzie is just cool-loves everyone, wants to laugh and has that show-family mentality. Pinkham: “Just don’t touch him, don’t touch him!”īiggs: “He looks cute, but he bites.” There’s also something with any project-it starts with that No. Pinkham: I was going to say, without Jason, it feels like a family-a family with an adopted son that doesn’t know he’s adopted.īiggs: Wait, what? I thought you were going to say an adopted rescue pit bull-one that was beaten, left on a chain in a yard in South Central for the first four years of his life. What has the vibe been so far?īiggs: I feel like there’s me, and then there’s everybody else.
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Show casts have different backstage demeanors-playful and chummy, professional and studious. Pinkham: Or they’ll ask you some question, and you’re like, “How do you know that about me?” Google should not have told you that.īiggs: I know Google didn’t tell you that, because I google myself all the time, and that’s not out there! For every 100 people you meet that are super nice, there’s always one where you say, “I wish this hadn’t happened,” but otherwise…īiggs: There’s always one lurking with an ice pick in the corner. Pinkham: The stage door, and the immediate interaction you have with your audience. What’s the one thing you can’t prepare for? You’ve both been on Broadway a number of times. Pinkham: I’ve actually been thinking a lot about Jason’s mom, too. Pinkham: We should talk about that off the record, because that feels, to quote a line from the play, “in the realm of the personal.” Pinkham: Wait, you’ve been thinking about my mom? Pinkham: I’ve been thinking a lot about my mom. Did we do what we set out to do? And are we happy where we are? I think audiences will be forced to ask the question: How much has changed in the 25 years since the play was staged? And these questions start to pop into one’s mind. I am getting older, I’m married with a kid, and whether I like it or not, I’m growing up. Jason Biggs: One of the themes that stands out to me is happiness and how you define it. As men, what relevance have you found in the play today?īryce Pinkham: I’ve found that it’s about much more than “women’s issues”-it’s about human issues. This play encapsulates a particular moment in the late ’80s, and Wendy Wasserstein is often labeled a feminist playwright. Pinkham, a Broadway vet who recently earned a Tony nom for A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder, is Heidi’s lifelong confidant, Peter. “Let’s get started.” Biggs, best known for the American Pie movies and Orange Is the New Black, plays Scoop, an on-again, off-again love interest for the title character, played by Elisabeth Moss. “Fuck that guy,” Jason Biggs says of his tardy Heidi Chronicles costar Bryce Pinkham while sitting in a corner booth at famous theater hangout Sardi’s.
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