As he prepares to star alongside Paul Bettany in “The Collaboration” at the Young Vic, Broadway darling Jeremy Pope tells Vogue about workshopping Anthony McCarten’s exceptional script and giving Jean-Michel Basquiat his due.
Few artistic relationships have been dissected with quite the same fervor as Andy Warhol and Jean-Michel Basquiat’s in the mid-’80s, when the young protégé’s celebrity threatened to eclipse that of the godfather of pop art. In a major new production at the Young Vic, artistic director Kwame Kwei-Armah directs’s Paul Bettany as Warhol, pulling apart the creative, racial, and sexual tensions between the two.
Warhol and Basquiat’s relationship has been portrayed in radically different ways over the years; some people claim that Warhol acted as Basquiat’s mentor, others that he might have been Basquiat’s lover, and still others that Warhol took advantage of him. Which angle are you looking at it from inSo, 18 months before Warhol died, Basquiat worked with him on an exhibition, which the reviewers totally destroyed. Their preparation together for that show forms the backdrop of.
Now that opening night is within sight, how are you feeling about being back on the stage again after entering the Ryan Murphy universe withThat’s another reason it’s great to be working with Paul, actually, because both of us are really aware of the challenges of doing theater. I missed it so much—film and TV are beautiful in their own way, but it’s different. You’ve got so many takes to get it right, and you can figure out what you’re doing on the day while shooting.
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