WHEN DERRY GIRLS, the Channel 4 sitcom turned Netflix comedy juggernaut, ended in 2022 after a rapturously received threeseason run, actress Saoirse-Monica Jackson found it hard to fully separate from her character. Jackson was 23 when she was cast as Erin Quinn, the ambitious, face-pulling, somewhat arrogant ringleader of a posse of teenagers in Northern Ireland at the tail end of the Troubles. "I was growing as a young woman in my early 20s, leading this massive, successful show, and my own personal growth was so woven in and running parallel to the story lines," Jackson tells me during a late pasta lunch in early June in London's Shoreditch neighborhood. Her real life then wasn't quite as chaotic and ridiculous as Erin's, but they were learning similar lessons, like the importance of "standing up for yourself and discovering that you're enough." Even as the show earned accolades, Jackson was riddled with insecurities about her place in the industry. "I get anxiety sometimes thinking about my early 20s," Jackson says. "It feels like one big panic attack-one big blur of messy mistakes."
Jackson is petite-she is often mistaken for a teenager-with an open, friendly face; wide-set green eyes; and a snub nose capable of fantastic comedic contortions, all framed by loose blonde curls. She's funny and has the type of self-effacing charm that puts people around her at ease.
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Art Fall Preview - World in Motion - An Alvin Ailey retrospective sets the tone for an array of eclectic offerings from the art world this fall.
An Alvin Ailey retrospective sets the tone for an array of eclectic offerings from the art world this fall. A gust of fresh air is blowing through the art world. A brand-new outfit called Ruby/Dakota has opened on the supercool strip of East 2nd Street. A whole new scene has formed around 56 Henry's two gallery spaces in Chinatown, and solo shows there by Laurie Simmons and Richard Tinkler promise to scintillate. Just north of the Whitney, Fort Gansevoort Gallery regularly showcases undiscovered artists, including, in September, 84-year-old quilt-maker extraordinaire Yvonne Wells. A gaggle of established artists are also exhibiting-Kara Walker, Simone Leigh, Nick Cave, and the still under-known Denzil Forrester among them. And the museums will have their fair share of thrilling exhibitions, too: The Whitney will feature American national treasure Alvin Ailey, MoMA will peer deep into its own brilliant bellybutton in a show about the woman who helped make the museum, and the Brooklyn Museum will give us an enormous show of artists based in its borough.
Kamala's Party - Producing Chicago The DNC covered nearly impossible ground to raise up Harris as the new hero.
Producing Chicago The DNC covered nearly impossible ground to raise up Harris as the new hero. At a political convention, power is rendered as geography. The rank and file are stuck in the rafters of the arena; the delegates jostle on the floor. Donors and VIPs are positioned up in a ring of luxury suites, their status-conferring badges and passes flapping from their many lanyards. The staffers toil down in the bowels, harried and molelike, their eyes on their phones. But at last week’s Democratic National Convention in Chicago, maybe the most important piece of real estate was a narrow space up metal gangway stairs at the back of the United Center, where Ricky Kirshner worked in front of a bank of a half-dozen flat-screens. The Democrats in the hall were extras in a televised event, and Kirshner was producing the show.
THE REHEARSAL
Ten performers days before their big fall shows.
Garth Greenwell's Grand Romance
The author explores the tender side of long-term partnership amid a health crisis in his best novel yet.
Josh Rivera Takes the Lead
The actor plays the tortured football player Aaron Hernandez in a Ryan Murphy-produced series.
Kaytranada Owns His Influence
Once modern dance music's best-kept secret, the Canadian DJ-producer is ready to go bigger.
The Perks of Not Being a Wallflower
Actor Adam Pearson has his biggest role to date in a dark comedy inspired by his upbeat personality.
Nicole Scherzinger Never Stopped Dreaming
The former Pussycat Doll stages a comeback.
Having a Ball Living in a Former Ballroom
Jack Shainman and Carlos Vega's apartment had to have space for \"big art.\"
THE ASTEROID-IN-SPRING HYPOTHESIS
It took ten days for two young paleontologists to turn on each other, each claiming to have found new evidence of the worst day in the history of life on Earth.
