“ playing opposite Matt, and we just needed somebody who could go pound for pound with him,” Nate explains. He also has kind words for newcomer Brandon Sklenar (Edward Mapplethorpe) and veteran actor John Benjamin Hickey (Robert’s lover Sam Wagstaff). “Marianne, she read for the role and it was like, there’s real life young Patti, in the flesh,” Nate declares. These drastic shifts also extended to the actor’s hairstyle: “We had Wigmageddon,” Eliza jokes, “there were a lot of wigs on the actors.” “It’s like, ‘you’re dying! You’re 18 years old, you moved out to New York City.
Nate agrees, explaining that the screenplay’s time span presented some unique challenges: “In maybe one day, you’d be doing a scene from the 60s and also a scene from the 80s.” “He really just embodied the character, the way he improvised, the way he would interact with the other characters, it was extraordinary to watch, you know. “ was so prepared, every day, even towards the end, he got really sick, he got some kind of bug-and he just plowed through it,” Eliza gushes. The cast, led by Smith, was more than up to the job. It’s a responsibility the pair took seriously through every aspect of production, which recreates three decades convincingly through music, wardrobe, and a vast number of locations. “He forged a path,” Nate agrees, “and it’s really cool to be holding his legacy.” “He forged a path, you know?” Eliza chimes in. But Robert was an icon not just to artists but… he’s not Lady Gaga, he’s not Ru Paul, he’s his own -but he came before, in many ways, those people were influenced by him and-“ “It’s not easy getting an independent film financed and shot in New York City anyway,” Nate states, “and an artist that’s this controversial, whose work was censored … trying to put this out into the mainstream, we knew there were going to be challenges. You know the controversy about him but then there was such humanity in him, too, and I feel like it was just exciting for us to tell that story.” Just with Mapplethorpe being such a boundary pusher and such a fascinating artist, and … the art that he made and the person that he was sort of being in contradiction. “This one was just something that really spoke to me when Nate sent the script to me in 2002,” Eliza professes. It turns out I was a freshman at Emerson when the Dushkus first started development. As I watch her start in on some chicken wings, I think, “Slayers… They’re just like us!” I’ve just seen Mapplethorpe and am eager to discuss the film. Eliza apologizes unnecessarily for grabbing food before joining us at Tribeca’s posh Roxy Hotel. Like Eliza’s famous Buffy the Vampire Slayer character Faith, the two grew up in the Boston area, where I was attending college when I first discovered her. Nate is wearing a high school jacket recently unearthed by their mom.
The Dushkus endear themselves to me early on.
Who‘s Matt Smith as the eponymous enfant terrible, is now open in limited release after a run at Tribeca Film Festival last spring. Their latest collaboration, Mapplethorpe, directed by Ondi Timoner and starring Dr. Eliza and Nate Dushku are like a lot of siblings-their words overlap, and they’re obviously close-except both happen to be very good-looking (seriously, what is with their family’s genes?) and have spent a lifetime acting and now producing in film and television.
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