I’m the weird guy who goes to a nine hour Béla Tarr movie on a beautiful day. I love stuff like that I love long, long immersive experiences like that. And anyone who came on those days was prepared for an event and it certainly was an event. And the audience on those days were just electric. The first time we did that I was like, “Oh, so that’s how it’s supposed to be done!” Because it really is one long play. They stand alone as one but there was nothing like doing them all in one day. Really? Yeah, it was because it really was one long play. On some days you would perform all three plays in the trilogy. How long did Coast of Utopia run? It was about ten months from rehearsal to the end in May. You did so most recently with Ethan in Coast of Utopia. Maybe from outside people see little patterns but when you’re inside, when it’s your life, you think oh, these are my friends and people I like to work with and oh look we’re doing it again, that’s great! It’s so funny you don’t really think about it that way, these people that you end up knowing and being friends with and working with in your life. I’m also excited about this production because it’s a combination of people that I’ve known for years and then some really exciting younger actors like Paul Dano and Zoe Kazan.Ĭan you articulate what it is about your relationship with Ethan and Jonathan that makes for such fruitful collaborations? Well, I suppose we’re all very different and I think that can tend to… Ethan’s very sort of pro-active and energetic and excitable and I’m a little bit more reserved and I think sometimes we bring out interesting things in each other because of that. I think theater companies can be really fertile places to work and since there aren’t many full repertory companies here in the city I personally feel it’s really nice to work with people with which I have a comfort level. What is it that makes the collaboration so fruitful? I think it’s really valuable to work with people you know and that youre comfortable with. You've returned to work with some of the same people repeatedly over the years. And so we’ve all just sort of grown up here in the city. And Peter Dinklage who is also in the play went to college with Jonathan and so they’ve been friends since that time as well. So Malaparte went on for a few years and eventually kind of dispersed because none of us really wanted to do the day-to-day running of the theater company and we were all working on other stuff too. In our early twenties Ethan, Jonathan and I drove cross country together and during that trip we decided to start the theater company. And after the movie we all became friends back in the city. Right after we did those plays he went off to do Dead Poets Society and through him I met Ethan. Besides Jonathan, how did you meet the others? Well, in addition to meeting Jonathan during the Young Playwrights Festival, and there was another actor participating in the festival named Robert Sean Leonard. Several of the people involved in the production have had a hand in Malaparte. He and Ethan and I and some other friends of ours had a little theater company when we were in our early twenties so this a professional reunion for us, of sorts.Īnd what is the play about – without giving away too much? It’s about three brothers living together and the different ways that people are honest and dishonest with themselves about what they really want in life. I’ve done about 4 of his plays over the years and this is his first new play in a while. I met him doing his play Women and Wallace in the Young Playwrights Festival when I was about 18. What can you tell us about the play? Well it’s written by Jonathan Marc Sherman, who is one of my oldest friends. Soon you'll be onstage again with The New Group in a dark comedy called Things We Want, directed by Ethan Hawke. (Read Sherman's recent Times profile here.) Hamilton can currently be seen starring in the film Outsourced and, starting October 22nd, the highly anticipated new play Things We Want, written by the preternaturally brilliant Jonathan Marc Sherman. Fans of Noah Baumbach’s 1995 film Kicking and Screaming remember him for his iconic performance as the anxiously intelligent Grover he also created the role of Dennis in Kenneth Lonergan’s This Is Our Youth and excelled as the coolly detached Mickey in the 2005 stage production of Hurlyburly. New York native Josh Hamilton has long been one of the most fun-to-watch actors working in independent film and downtown theater.
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