The Party Girls at the Heart of “Club Kid”
The film’s stars say its rare portrait of queer parenthood resonated with them and helped shape their own thoughts on family planning.
- Jordan Firstman's directorial debut, 'Club Kid,' premiered at the Cannes Film Festival, earning a Certain Regard nomination for its depiction of queer parenthood.
- The narrative centers on Peter, a strung-out party promoter who unexpectedly learns he has a nine-year-old son named Arlo when a friend attempts to foist custody onto him.
- Stars Alaska Riley, Benny Jean Pierce, and Saturn Risin9 reflected on production, with Riley recalling, 'I need to get sober, and I need to be a gay dad.'
- Pierce and Saturn discussed navigating family planning while working on the script, noting difficulty finding role models for trans motherhood.
- Firstman joins a cinematic tradition of reluctant parents including Charlie Chaplin's Little Tramp and Dustin Hoffman in 'Kramer vs. Kramer,' offering a fresh take on the classic trope.
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Review: A party animal becomes a dad — and a real filmmaker is born — in ‘Club Kid’
Hollywood has been cranking out films about unprepared men thrust into fatherhood since the silent movie days when Charlie Chaplin’s Little Tramp found a littler tramp on his doorstep and raised the ragamuffin as his own in 1921’s “The Kid.”…
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Club Kid, in theaters this Wednesday, marks the amazing debut behind the camera of American comedian Jordan Firstman. A bitter comedy about homoparentality, with overflowing feelings.
The Party Girls at the Heart of “Club Kid”
Jordan Firstman’s directorial début tells the story of a gay promoter who finds out he’s a father. On a groggy Lower East Side morning, the three actors who play his night-life posse compare notes on queer family planning. Holden Seidlitz reports.
Discover Club Kid, Jordan Firstman's new film, released at the cinema this Wednesday, November 4, with Cara Delevingne and Diego Calva. We had discovered it thanks to his (hilarantes) videos Impressions on Instagram, then Rotting in the Sun by Sebastián Silva and Rachel Sennott's I Love L.A. series, where he played a [...] This article Club Kid by Jordan Firstman appeared first on Rolling Stone.
The actor/director opens up about his first feature film, which revolves around single parenthood within the gay community. A trendy and tender film, it garnered attention at Cannes in the Un Certain Regard section.
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