![]() ![]() Did you see the headline!? " He's referring to a People interview from about a week before our run, one with the headline " Selena Gomez’s 13 Reasons Why Star Couldn’t Help Fangirling Over Her Either (Even Though He’s Nearly 50!)" ![]() "I didn't get to meet Selena until the premiere, and I did an interview and I talked all about my daughter being at the premiere. It's as good a time as any to ask him about how he started working for Executive Producer Selena Gomez on 13 Reasons Why. "So whether you see it simply as an appreciation of a fact that is true, or if you see it as something that is a statement of defiance and pride in pushing back on some of the ways that laws are being legislated-the truth is it's potent no matter what. "Īt this point, we're done running, having snacks on a park bench. I believe they had to tweak that moment a bit in the music so they can make room for the reaction, so they wouldn't miss the next lyric. "There are a lot of obvious examples-one is 'Immigrants, we get the job done'-which even before the current administration's view on immigration, before the election, that was getting big applause. "In any political environment, it has so much to say about who we are as a country, who we are as a people, in so many different ways," James says. To James, it's a sign of the show's versatility, and the potency of American history. But James is also in a unique position of having returned to the world in a post-Trump political landscape, where its themes suddenly seem more defiant. I raggedly huffed questions at him, apologizing now and again for being a treadmill-favoring, angrily-plod-and-pant sort of guy.Īs King George, James-an actor with a long rap sheet of wide and diverse theater credits in productions both classic (think Les Miserables) and unusual ( Shrek The Musical)-is exactly the kind of establishment figure the Founding Fathers were rebelling against, the stark opposition to the American Dream. I shouldn't be surprised-the man is a trained singer and actor and easily rattles off biographical details while we jog at a respectable pace: He came to the city in the early nineties after going to school at Northwestern University he lived on the Lower East Side back then and reflected on how much it's changed compared to the relatively static Upper West Side. James is much better at talking during aerobic exercise than me. ![]() That is, the most pompous and flamboyant part of one of the biggest Broadway shows ever. James possesses an unassuming aura of chill utterly at odds with the confrontational nature of the work he's been associated with lately a stark contrast to the guy he is onstage in Hamilton. ![]() That's James' lane these days, it seems star of almost freakishly prescient projects, although you'd never guess that by his demeanor. Oh, and he'll be playing an FBI agent in the upcoming film The Silent Man, a biopic about Mark Felt, better known as Deep Throat, the whistleblower involved in the Watergate scandal. He's the guy who originated the role of King George during Hamilton's low-key Off-Broadway run, he played journalist Matt Carroll in the Oscar-winning film Spotlight-one of the real men and women who unearthed the Catholic Church's sex abuse scandal-and most recently, he played the father of Hannah Baker, the girl whose suicide lies at the center of the plot (and controversy) of Netflix's hot teen drama 13 Reasons Why. Unless someone told you, it would be easy for you to miss the fact that Brian d'Arcy James is on a hot streak of starring in some of the most buzzy and controversial works of the last few years. ![]()
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