Joshua Jackson & Lauren Ridloff (With Interpreter Candace Broecker-Penn) On “Children Of A Lesser Go
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 18 ต.ค. 2024
- In 1980, "Children of a Lesser God" premiered on Broadway and asked: how can we truly communicate? Now, Tony Award-winning director Kenny Leon is laying this question bare in a breathtaking new production of this landmark play starring Joshua Jackson, Lauren Ridloff and Anthony Edwards. Winner of Tony, Drama Desk, and Olivier Awards, "Children of a Lesser God" tells the story of an unconventional teacher at a school for the deaf and the remarkable woman he meets there. As their relationship heats up, so does their desire to connect - igniting a thrilling exploration of passion, intimacy, and what we surrender when we fall in love. Jackson, Ridloff and interpreter Candace Broecker-Penn stopped by the BUILD stage to discuss the play.
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This aged well! Lauren got her wish to be a superhero, having now played Makkari in Marvel's Eternals movie =)
Great interview questions too!
This interviewer is great. Each question carefully considered. Original. All correct terminology used.
Lauren Ridloff's story should be its own movie. Wonderful human beings all around in this interview. Laura Heywood nailed it once again, I kind of envy her for this super exciting job she has.
Love Joshua, miss knowing him. We knew each other lots back in the 90's, his mom was my agent years ago. To see Josh as such an sympathetic fully realized man is awesome. And Lauren is absolutely amazing! Wish I could see the play!
that’s so cool!
That’s interesting! I have never met him, of course, but I agree that he seems to be a thoughtful, insightful, and empathetic man. That’s not a given when someone becomes famous at 15, so credit to him (and his mother).
A wonderful interview! Wish I could've seen the play and hope to see Lauren in many many movies to come!!
Wow, this was a really beautiful, deep, and insightful interview. Both Joshua and Lauren shared so much wisdom. Thank you to the interpreter and interviewer, as well. I wish I could see this show!
Susanna H Well said! I 100% agree! What a beautiful interview; very thoughtful and it really touches on important aspects of our community. Regardless of speech, hearing, skin type, religion, height and or weight, we as a country need to listen, really truly listen to our brothers and sisters. We need to listen and truly hear one another, as beautiful messages and important thoughts are conveyed every day, but because were constantly focused on ourselves, we miss them.
Ilove joshua and after seeing this interview I love and respect him so much!! Learning sign language is true dedication to his character and determination
I discovered this interview a few months ago after going into a Dawson's Creek binge and finding myself a new favorite actor in Joshua Jackson. And I finished the video having newfound awe and appreciation for how much of a gem Lauren Ridloff is. And now I'm rewatching this video in November, and Eternals has come out, and Lauren's wish of playing some kind of superhero or superwoman next has beautifully come true in the wonderful Makkari! What an incredibly charming and skilled actress she is 🖤 Also I still can't get enough of how good Josh and Lauren's working relationship is! Really hope they'll have another project together again in the future.
This interview made me really want to see this show! I have to go see it now. Such a beautiful interview!
OMG, she did become a superhero!! Talk about manifesting your destiny! I love it.
2021 and she’s an actual superhero, so happy for her !!! #eternals
This was truly an Amazing interview. Joshua has literally grown up, so wonderful. This co-star is Awesome. God bless them both! 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
What makes this so excellent is that All involved in this interview, are “real people”, just being real, it’s so wonderful!
wow. loving Josh as always what a wonderful thing and Lauren Ridloff seems very lovely. Interpreters have a gyaad daym difficult job. Had no idea ASL wasn't considered a language till sometime in the 80s, that is unfathomable and should be criminal. Funny how Josh said they took the language right out of their 'mouths'. Even when he has been learning about this culture and this new language, we 'hearing' still get so stuck in the phraseology of how we 'hearing' experience language
And now she will actually be a superhero in the MCU. I'm really excited to see that.
One of the Build's best interviews.......aaannnndddd then the audience questions, which is the most painful part.
Great interview, Laura. I thought you did such a heart-felt, beautiful job and Lauren Ridloff and Joshua Jackson were both so sweet and inspiring. I'm dying to see this play now and I hope these two will be part of a new film version of this story, once their time with the theater production ends.
What a great interview. I've been a fan of Josh forever, and now I can say I have a female crush on Lauren too. Ha! She's amazing!
Also, thank you for always doing your homework and asking such thoughtful questions. :)
Great interview! The host asked great questions!
Wonderful interview! I was excited to see this interview because I had really enjoyed seeing Lauren perform in the series The Walking Dead, AND just saw her on stage at the San Diego Comic Con as part of an announcement about future Marvel projects one of which she will be starring in, The Eternals. So so excited to continue to see her in future projects and I'm a big fan.
This is wonderful! I saw the movie in the 80s and I hope to see this! Mr. Jackson has been amazing since Mighty Ducks. Great to see his soulful Ducks character was a product of a truly profound spirit. His humanity is touching and Ms. Ridloff reminds me of Marly Matlin not because she’s deaf but because of her communicative presence! I want to learn ASL!
Ahh this made my day today on this rainy Sunday. And maybe a little teary.
Something about these interviews with Lauren just makes me smile the whole time!❤️❤️
1) I saw this play on stage in the early '80s (I think, it was before the movie came out) via a school trip and I will always remember it. I'd love to see it again.
2) Lauren is now in The Walking Dead, playing one of the badest asses (!) and proving how deaf people are just as resilient, if not more so, as us hearing people!
3) Pacey 4ever!
What a wonderful interview. I would love to be able to see this show.
She manifested herself playing Makkari 🥺🥺🥺
Respect for these two!
This was just a beautifully executed interview. Lauren seems to be handling her ascent into Broadway legend well.
Also, on another note, I was a theater nerd in middle school and high school - even though I really, really, do not like watching most plays (though I love Opera) - Children of a Lesser God is one of only two plays that I have experienced that has held my attention through the whole thing and is the only play I have ever seen that actually brings me to genuine tears. I would love to see a Broadway production of that.
***One last note: It's interesting to me that Lauren's experience with Children of a Lesser God was always a deaf, white woman - I have the exact opposite. I've seen Children of a Lesser God live on three occasions and two of them, and one of those was the first time I ever saw it, had deaf women of color play Sarah. It startled me went the next time I watched it, a white woman played Sarah, as I assumed this was a role about a deaf woman of color.
this was a great interview,
Her shoes...my goodness, her shoes!!!!!
Yes, that is my takeaway from this entire interview!
😂😂😂
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I just hit the 8 minute mark. I wish I could have this experience every day, for hours on end. What a great feeling.
I paused the video, however. I was filled with hope that there was more time, yet felt the dread rising. It was all about to end. I knew, just KNEW, that AUTOPLAY was about to kick in the next video.
Wait! What's this, I see? I have 23 minutes left of this amazing interview and display of humanity? I'm filled with joy! Elated, you could say.
That quickly dimmers down, however, for I realize that 31 minutes is not enough. I begin to cower, knowing what's coming.
Damn it. Why? Ahhhh!
Another Trump story blows up in my face.
You know what? I reject that. When this video finishes, I'm going to start it over and feel that warmth in my heart, again. I want to believe in humanity. I want to live in a life of understanding, reason, logic, and honest compassion.
We all live in multiple realities, oblivious to most of the alternate ones that walk past us, or even that person who honked at you in your rear view mirror. If we are sane, we have control of that reality.
Well, I choose to live in this reality, which I've seen 8 minutes of. I'm tired of being told how to feel. I'm tired of being told what is right and what is wrong. I'm tired of being lied to, every fucking day! I'm tired of being told who's a piece of shit and who's a hero. Can I just get a honest, God damn, fucking, conversation about people and positivism?
I digress and hit play once more...
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Lauren Ridloff is the sweetest person in the world
Oh that's Joshua! I didn't even recognize him at first!
Mr. Joshua Jackson has been M.I.A from my view. This series has me looking at him in a different light 😊👍🏾👍🏾
You can find him in "The Affair" on Showtime, in "Fringe" on IMDb TV (free), in "Little Fires Everywhere" on HULU, and in "When They See Us" on Netflix. Lots of other roles, too.
For anyone planning on seeing this, there is an app that you can supposedly use to follow captions while the show is being performed. I saw the show in previews and hopefully Studio 54 has made this CRUCIAL change, but there was NO information about the captions app... I found out a full week later from the person I went with that the theatre gave information about the app outloud over a loudspeaker.... HUH????? I am HOH... I couldn't hear well enough to understand what was being announced... They should have had someone signing this as well as captioned it above the stage so people such as myself would have known about the app.... Hopefully this was just an oversight and the information about the app is being given out appropriately...
This is so interesting and as it is so true that we all need to learn to listen better! And this story really displays that so well! Far better that just saying the words, that we need to learn to listen well!
This is a really great interview, but it should be captioned.
@Becca It is, you simply need to select the Closed Captioning (CC) option at the bottom right-hand corner of the screen. It may be a little imperfect in that the sentences run together but you can tell who is talking by who has screen time. :)
Just to add, I wish the included Candace (the ASL interpreter) at all times as well for those of us who are fluent in ASL but who are Deaf or HOH (but know sign).
This is a really great interview... BUT to talk so much about accessibility without the interview being made accessible (truly accessible) is not ok...
Auto-Caps are NOT real accessibility. Especially when you're interviewing a Deaf woman, with an interpreter, about a show with tons of accessibility, about a Deaf woman.....
That was brilliant!!
So sorry I missed this show...
I saw the show this past Monday, and am sad to say that I didn't absolutely love it. HOWEVER, I think it is fantastic that this show is on Broadway again. The videos (this one especially) are wonderful addressing not only the play, but Deaf Culture, ASL, and so much more... Kudos to all for a wonderful video...
Wow this is very interesting. As a hearing person who has never really encountered a deaf person (who signs) then embarrassingly I just don't think about all the difficulties they must face. Lauren speaks so eloquently and ordinarily we just probably wouldn't get her point of view because we don't sign ad she doesn't speak. I really hope there's some way for this play to reach a wider audience, maybe through filming and showing in movie theatres. I only wish I had a chance to see it (I guess renting the movie would be a start)
Also forgot to say that I thought the interviewer was very good too - engaged and truly interested in Josh, Lauren and the show
The movie is EXCELLENT and the message is MUCH clearer in the movie as opposed to this Broadway revival. This being said THIS INTERVIEW is fantastic... The show, on the otherhand, not so much... At the same time, I can't help but support ANY theatre that involves Deaf Culture and ASL.
I F***ING LOVE THIS MAN!!!!!!!!!! 😍😍😍😍😍😍
She's so beautiful
Anyone else take forever to figure out that she is THE Lauren from the signing naturally textbooks?
Took me forever to figure out how I recognized her.
I only state at her face everyday in class!!
Great interview
She's so beautiful.
Their discussion about deaf children being discouraged from signing recalls to mind a 1979 film called "And your name is Jonah". A moving film, although it definitely smacks of the late 70s
Interesting Lauren talked about wanting to play a superhero and she ended up playing one in Eternals
Who came here after watched the Eternals ( the character Makkari)?
OMG is this the guy who played Charlie Conway in the mighty ducks movies
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I want them to fall in love in real life. Their relationship seems so special.
she's married
He’s married with a kid to Jodie Turner Smith ❤️ But I do see what your talking about 🙂
In response to the "bullshit" sign that the interview brought up. I believe it originated with a John Leguizamo (horribly misspelled I'm sure) show he did on HBO. People seen that, assumed it was real sign, and passed it on as gospel. Ignoring the fact that John said it was made up in the first place.
Tim, the BS "sign" that they are referring to is slang and has been used in the Deaf Community for decades.... When they say it was "made up", what they meant is that it doesn't really mean BS (interpretted as meaning nothing, being false, etc.). The "made up" sign for BS was created by Deaf people as a pun... Sign for bull and then a classifier showing a bull well, you know...
Hi BUILD SERIES
I cant wait to watch eternals
Just interested in Joshua and his career. Nothing against the deaf lady but I couldn't care less about her.
I didn’t think of Lauren as a woman of colour, yes a deaf woman, nothing more.
Sick
Lauren Ridloff is deaf.
That interpreter is adding words she isn't signing. That is REALLY annoying.
Do you know that for sure? To me it just looks like she is speaking a bit behind Lauren’s signing, giving it the appearance that she’s putting in extra words.
ta première femme était plus belle que cette mocheté de la deuxième que tu a épouser très déçus je tes suivie dans dawson mais la choquer que tu a divorcé pour prendre une Vilaine comme elle tu m.erite beaucoup mieux bisous
Wtf? 🙄
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