(Zoe: we're becoming a fanzine because of you)
via Paper Magazine:
"I grew up with a sense that I had to make art, but that I didn't want to have to struggle financially," says actress Zoe Lister-Jones. Even when she was offered a nearly full scholarship to NYU's Tisch School of the Arts for acting, she was hesitant. "I thought I should pursue something more stable, like law school. But my parents [video artist Ardele Lister and photographer Bill Jones] said I had to go," she says. "The funny thing is, I've been supporting myself with acting ever since. So I guess what I'm trying to say is [that] my parents are awesome." Lister-Jones has appeared on Broadway in The Little Dog Laughed, on TV in all four franchises of Law & Order, and soon on cable in the upcoming Sarah Jessica Parker-produced HBO series, The Washingtonienne (based on the same-titled Jessica Cutler novel).
This year the 26-year-old adds writer-producer (and soundtrack
chanteuse) to her résumé with Breaking Upwards, a film she made
with her real-life boyfriend, director-actor Daryl Wein. "We were in an
open relationship for a year. We play ourselves [in the film] and, in
essence, perform the story of our relationship's demise." Where most
auteurs her age would chronicle this so-wrong-it's-right young urban
ennui with handheld cameras and improvised mumblings, Breaking
Upwards is well-scripted, well-shot and features an
intergenerational cast that includes Tony winner Julie White and
Juno's Olivia Thirlby. "My friends don't live in a world of
awkward silences and shaky cityscapes," says Lister-Jones. "We were
interested in reinventing a classic genre, and in some ways, defying
it."
H HOBEY ECHLIN
via Foam Magazine:
