#396: Jeremy O. Harris
Jeremy O. Harris is the New York City-based playwright, actor, and screenwriter behind Slave Play, one of the biggest (and coolest) plays on Broadway. The smash hit received the most Tony nominations of all time and made Jeremy one of the most talked about names in theater. Harris also adapted a series of real tweets into a script with Janicza Bravo for the A24 film Zola, co-produces Euphoria, had another acclaimed play title Daddy, and even puts a significant chunk of his money to towards grants and helping playwrights in need. Most recently he starred in one the best indies of the year, The Sweet East, where he and Ayo Edebiri parody NYC directors and riff for five minutes straight. It’s one of my favorite scenes of the year. Oh, and how could I forget, he’s a great bowler. If we started a league would you join? Lucky for us, Jeremy is here to tell us what he’s been into.
Dec 13, 2023 BY
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Yes…it is boring often, but also, so are a lot of other things people do. Whenever my friends would ask me to go see a concert that they were putting on with their band or to see them do stand-up comedy— did I think of all the bad stand-up comedy I’ve been to before? Yes. But did I still go hoping that theirs might be good? Yes. That is because I don’t hate life. Yet often, when I tell people “come see a play with me” they’re like “UGH I hate plays.” Theatre is really cool; there is often really really shit theatre and that’s ok. A lot of things are really shitty. Think about this: where else can you go and hang out with 400 people, minimum, and be able to sit and *something* over people possibly failing in front of you. It’s really fun! Go see threatre.
Dec 13, 2023
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I love food. I love love. And I love movies that are about food making people fall in love. This movie was right up my alley; it really fucked me up. Juliette Binoche is one of the hottest women in the world. If you haven’t seen it yet, watch it, cry, fall in love, tell all your friends. I think it’s one of the most underrated movies of the year.
Dec 13, 2023
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Bowling is a sick thing to do. In a city like New York, that was once the city that never sleeps, it feels like we're in a permanent coma post Covid and there’s no place to hang out late at night. But up the street from my house there’s a place that’s open ‘til 4 am every night. And it’s called The Gutter. It’s a sick bowling alley and it’s become my go-to hang with my friends. You can drink, you can play a game, you can socialize, you can flirt, and the lighting is great. In most other places it’s too dark to see if the people you’ve come with are hot that night, but at this bowling alley, you can always see if someone’s hot or not. If you want to go bowling with me, hit me up, I take a lot of people, and it’s always a good time.
Dec 13, 2023
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This is a new Youtube competition series/international K-pop girl group that has finished it’s three missions and the final band is revealed after looking at 20 girls from around the globe, they chose the 6 who would be in the HYBE x Geffen Records band KATSEYE. I’m so excited; all of the girls are amazing but I’m especially obsessed with a young woman named Laura who is a superstar. Watch the show, watch their journeys, follow them online, and get ready to watch and become addicted when the Netflix series comes out in the spring. It’s fucking dope.
Dec 13, 2023
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I’ve been watching Big Brother since I was 9 years old. You watch 15 to 20 people enter a house together, choose the head of household, who then puts two people on the block, and you watch as people lie and scheme and align themselves with others until one person ends up winning half a million dollars at the end. There’s no television show I want to be on more. There are Survivor girls, there are Amazing Race girls, but then there’s Big Brother girls, and we’re just built different. I’ve gotten a lot of people addicted to this. It is buckets and buckets of fun. I would start with season 3. The latest season is really really good.
Dec 13, 2023
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This man was a fascist, but he was also gay, and you know what, sometimes gay people can be bad. And sometimes bad people can write really well, and one of the greatest writers of the 20th century was Yukio Mishima. If you want to see into worlds beyond your own, you should check him out. He created an entirely new language for Japanese literature. I discovered him when I took a Japanese literature and translation class in undergrad and he’s been my background on my phone ever since. He’s great. I think that if you want to start right, start with “Confessions of a Mask” and go on to “Forbidden Colors.” Every book is a banger. Also watch Paul Scrader’s movie, “Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters” It’s a phenomenal phenomena phenomenal movie.
Dec 13, 2023