Jordan Firstman owes his career to banana bread. At the height of the lonely COVID-19 pandemic, the aspiring writer started posting zany impression videos on Instagram: a town gossip who has no gossip during quarantine, the personification of the pronouns they/them, a white person at a protest who can’t chant on beat. But the one that broke the internet was the one where he became the publicist for banana bread, the go-to comfort bake of lockdown.
After rising to internet fame during the pandemic and playing lovable sidekicks on the cult-favorite TV series ‘English Teacher’ and ‘I Love LA,’ Firstman wrote, directed, and stars in ‘Club Kid,’ a sincere coming-of-age dramedy about a hard-partying gay New York City club promoter, Peter (Firstman), who discovers he’s a dad when a 10-year-old boy arrives on his doorstep. It’s a story about growing up in which art imitates life—and nobody has more riding on the project than 35-year-old Firstman, who’s hoping this movie will help him shed his internet personality and lead the industry to take him seriously as a filmmaker.
For Vanity Fair’s New Establishment Issue,
@Beccamford caught up with an auteur on the brink—and the colorful cast of his big debut:
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