![]() ![]() Yes, he’s reserved and nervous about it in the beginning because he’s unlocking this new idea for himself. "I think that’s how Fraser interprets it as well. It’s this guard that they don’t even realize they have, where they’re initially like, ‘Being gay? I could never.’ But we’re all born as humans who are attracted to whatever we’re attracted to," he says. "I think every single person born as a boy has this guard. His personal discovery is instead internal and intimate. Caught in a fraught relationship with his lesbian mother and an infatuation with another man, his story doesn’t tick off the familiar beats. Each character quietly struggles with their own problems and growing pains-for Fraser, it’s his sexuality. “I think I was more ignorant before I did the show,” he says, and he leaves it at that.Ĭoming of agers are a particularly well-trodden genre, but there’s a naturalistic, raw energy to We Are Who We Are that is distinctive from what we’ve seen before. When asked how he has changed, he takes a pause and a pensive swivel in his armchair, unsure of how to answer. While talking about his character, he seems to unintentionally switch pronouns, from “he” to “I”, as if the two still remain one and the same. One day on set, he looked at himself in the mirror, and the hardened kid standing there with a bleach-blond dye job and oversized shorts was unrecognizable to him. That was just me trying to get into, but then I slipped at some point and just became Fraser.” “I would go out and get a coffee as Fraser and walk like Fraser. “I had no other choice but to act and surrender to Fraser entirely and throw Jack Dylan Grazer out the window,” he says. Over those months in Italy, the distinctions between actor and character gradually became indistinguishable. He describes the experience less as a performance and more like a “rebirth”-perhaps even an attempt at method acting. In many ways, Grazer absorbed that philosophy entirely. “His philosophy is that we know our characters better than anyone else-even the writers-because we are the characters essentially,” he explains. He spent six months in Italy (“It felt like I was in Call Me By Your Name.”) and built up the character beyond what was on the page in collaboration with Guadagnino. ![]() It’s abnormal to talk about the show as a turning point for an actor who isn’t even a legal adult yet, but Grazer explains that the show required him to radically change his approach to acting. Likewise, school amounted to being pulled off set by a teacher in between takes to cram in the mandatory hours.īut with We Are Who We Are, he steps into his first leading role, one that required him to convey longing and confusion through Elio-like physicality and subtext. In the horror franchise, Grazer plays a neurotic germaphobe running from a fear-eating clown, but in reality, the film felt like “summer camp.” Both films never felt like work he just learned his lines and got to hang out on extravagant sets with his best friends. While other kids might take up a sport or get hooked on video games, he performed in musical theater with the Adderley School because he “just wanted to play.” His roles so far have been reflective of his carefree approach to the job: Up until now, he’s portrayed best friends with biting one-liners, or the younger version of the protagonist in a flashback. He’s calm and thoughtful, as if this project we’re discussing requires a shift in sensibility.įor Grazer, acting had always simply been fun. His TikToks are inscrutable.īut here, he’s incredibly earnest, as he excitedly talks about his skateboarding hobby (a skill he picked up after auditioning for Mid90s) and his attempts to learn the flute (“I need to learn how to read sheet music, but it’s like reading Hebrew!”). A quick YouTube search brings up results like “ jack dylan grazer being a drama queen” and “ jack dylan grazer being chaotic in interviews for 4 and a half minutes straight.” He trolled a YouTube gamer on Instagram Live. If you were to judge Grazer by what’s out there on the internet, you’d expect an anarchic and relentless bundle of energy. “You do miss the social aspect of being at school.” “It feels like the days are shorter because the teachers don’t want to torture their students by keeping them on a computer for six hours a day,” he tells me. It’s a Saturday morning and he looks tired: It’s his first week back at school, which has traded classrooms for hours of video calls reminiscent of the one we’re currently on. When we meet over Zoom, his shoulder length curls are damp and disheveled (he just got out of the shower), his black painted fingernails contrast with his brightly-lit, white bedroom as he rests his face on his hand. “I don’t know if I really had much of a childhood. ![]()
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