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GQ: Ari, you’re about to finish up a run in Relatively Speaking on Broadway. It’s three one-act plays, and you’re in the one written by Woody Allen. Do you have a good Woody story?Ari Graynor: He was so present. I would be running out on stage and he’d say, “I have a new joke for you.” And he would give it to me. And I would give it back to him. And he would give us notes. The best thing was, opening night, he gave us all mezuzahs.
GQ: The Jewish doorpost? Nice.Ari Graynor: So I have a mezuzah from Woody Allen. This is a little bit of backstory. So, there’s a moment in the play where we’re talking about these books that these characters have written. And I don’t say anything. I thought it was weird that I didn’t say anything. So in rehearsals, I asked John Turturro—who was the director—about it. He said, “You go up to Woody Allen and ask him.” I go, “Alright.” So I went up to Woody and I said, “I think maybe I should say something here.” And he took the pages and took off his glasses and he said, “I’ll go home and look at it tonight.” And then he came back and said, “I have a joke for you if you want to try it.” I said, “OK.” This was the joke: I say, “The character of Rosalie who performs oral sex at the Seder was based on me.”
GQ: That’s funny.Ari Graynor: So when he gave me the mezuzah opening night, his handwritten card said, “You can come to my Seder anytime. Woody.”
GQ: That’s amazing.Ari Graynor: It’s pretty much the most incredible thing that’s ever happened to me.
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