At the rate she’s going, Tavi Gevinson will be EGOTing, topping The New York Times best-seller list, and winning a C.F.D.A. before she can legally drink. Gevinson, who is 17, will be making her Broadway debut in Kenneth Lonergan’s This Is Our Youth this August. And the rest of the casting is similarly Tumblr-y, with Michael Cera and Kieran Culkin playing the other two leads. The trio will play “three aimless New York City teens”; Gevinson will be portraying Jessica, an “anxiously insightful young woman,” whom Cera’s character, Warren, “yearns for.” (That Cera, always the “yearner”!) This promises to have the highest quotient of Audience Members Who Are Wearing Thick-Framed Hipster Glasses of any Broadway show yet.
This Is Our Youth was first performed in New York in 1996, with Josh Hamilton in Culkin’s role, Mark Ruffalo in Cera’s, and Missy Yager in Gevinson’s. In subsequent productions, it has featured a range of future Hollywood actors, including Matt Damon, Jake Gyllenhaal, Casey Affleck, Freddie Prinze, Jr., and Anna Paquin. Lonergan, who has earned two Oscar nominations for best screenplay (You Can Count on Me and Gangs of New York), recently saw the lengthy legal battle surrounding his feature Margaret—which hit theaters in 2011, six years after it was filmed—come to a close.
Gevinson, who first gained acclaim at the age of 12 due to her successful fashion blog, is now the editor in chief of the popular site Rookie, for which she’s interviewed the likes of Lorde and Emma Watson. She’s modeled for Rodarte; styled a shoot for BlackBook Magazine; and twice been named to the Forbes 30 Under 30 in media list. She made her feature-film debut in Enough Said last year opposite Julia Louis-Dreyfus, and chatted with Miley Cyrus about feminism for this month’s Elle cover story. Seriously, she makes James Franco looks like a slacker.
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