Aaron Sorkin And Anne Hathaway Join Jessica Chastain In Defending Jeremy Strong From His New Yorker Profile

December 11, 2021 / Posted by:

Well, Aaron Sorkin and Anne Hathaway have now joined Jessica Chastain in Hollywood’s newest IT charitable cause. You hear that, Leonardo DiCaprio?! Scream at your pilot to divert your private jet from whatever environmental conference you’re headed to and fly to NYC for the inevitable JUSTICE4STRONG charity gala. Earlier this week, The New Yorker released a profile on Jeremy Strong, who plays Kendall Roy on Succession, and a lot of it covers his serious acting process. Jeremy’s process isn’t Jared Leto levels of method creepiness, but he refuses to rehearse and he doesn’t completely turn his character off when a scene ends. People who have worked with Jeremy were interviewed including Jeremy’s current TV daddy, Brian Cox, who said that he worries about what Jeremy does to himself to prepare for a scene. Brian repeated that on Wednesday’s episode of The Late Show with Seth Meyers by saying that he’s afraid Jeremy’s intense process will lead to early burnout.

The New Yorker piece wasn’t mean, but still, Jeremy’s friend Jessica Chastain put her on Captain Save-A-Method-Ho cap and called out the profile as “one-sided.” And now Aaron Sorkin and Anne Hathaway have both come to the defense of poor, persecuted Jeremy Strong. You know, because they hate that profile so much that they’re going to bring more attention to it so more people can read it!

The New Yorker’s Michael Schulman, who first met Jeremy Strong in 2003, spent a lot of time with him on-and-off the set of Succession to get into the mind of a SERIOUS thespian! One of Jeremy’s Yale classmates did say he had a major “careerist drive” and his Succession co-star Kieran Culkin said that Jeremy thinks he’s in a drama while everyone else is in a comedy (something Keiran has said to Jeremy’s face). But I didn’t take the profile as some kind of career-ending hit piece. After the piece went viral, The New Yorker defended it in a statement to Deadline:

“This is a nuanced, multi-sided portrait of an extremely dedicated actor. It has inspired a range of reactions from people, including many who say that they are even more impressed by Jeremy Strong’s artistry after having read the article.”

But Jessica Chastain, who says she’s been friends with Jeremy for 20 years and has worked with him several times, did not see it that way and defended him in a tweet. Jessica didn’t stop there. Who knew that Jessica would make “defending Kendall from Successionpart of her Oscar campaign? Aaron Sorkin, who has worked with both Jessica (Molly’s Game) and Jeremy (Molly’s Game and The Trial of the Chicago 7), wrote his own long ass letter of defense, and since he isn’t on social medial, Jessica tweeted it for him. Aaron was interviewed for The New Yorker profile, and he listed the questions he was asked as well as his answers. Aaron thinks the profile was a “distorted picture of Jeremy” and seems annoyed that the answers that were used were about Jeremy’s method ways (like how he wanted an actual tear gas facial while shooting Trial of the Chicago 7). Aaron also praised Jeremy for being a great and respectful actor.

And yes, “Aaron Sorkin doesn’t have social media so asked me to post this” has already become a meme.

Since Jeremy Strong is a theater kid, the leader of the Hollywood theater kids, Anne Hathaway, has also defended him. Anne has worked with Jeremy on that mess Serenity and the upcoming movie Armageddon Time. Anne didn’t specifically slap down The New Yorker profile but she did shower Jeremy with praise.

Adam McKay, who is an executive producer on Succession, also tagged in to support Jeremy DURING THIS DIFFICULT TIME.

The thing is, Jeremy Strong, the person who the profile is about, hasn’t said anything about this. He could love the profile for all we know. But if he hates it, then I’m sure he’s scrambling to get a last-minute scene filmed for tomorrow’s Succession finale where a magazine called The Manhattanite does a hit piece on Kendall Roy so he shits on a copy of it. And since this is Jeremy Strong we’re talking about, there’s no need to CGI a turd coming out of his ass. He’ll doo-doo it for real, thankyouverymuch!

Pics: Wenn.com

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