Meet Will_Hochman, the actor making his Broadway debut opposite Mary Louise Parker.
Once he received a copy of the script, he said “it was like lightning hit my tiny little apartment.” He knew he had to play the part of the world weary student Christopher Dunn. “It was the style of writing, it was the way that Mary Louise’s character was describing my character, it was the questions the story was asking, the relationship, I just got all of it,” he said. “I read this thing and thought, this is the moment. This is my part. I’d never felt that before.
He sent in a self tape and went to visit family in Connecticut for Passover that weekend. And then, while playing basketball with his brother, he fractured his foot. "I’ve been an athlete my entire life and I’d never had a real injury before,” says Hochman, who was on the squash team at Colby College and, incidentally, is looking for some opponents.
From the moment Hochman appears on stage as the 18-year-old Christopher, it is clear that the character is a tortured soul. He can’t connect with his peers and instead idolizes depressed literary giants like Fyodor Dostoevsky and David Foster Wallace. “There’s so much that Christopher Dunn doesn’t have,” Hochman said. “Every night, when I step out of his shoes it’s really nice to, you know, live in the same city as my family. Even [to have] simple things like that.
As for working with Parker, the experience has been even better than Hochman expected. “She might actually be a genius, for real, on more levels than just acting,” he said. “She offers me invaluable wisdom for acting and for life, and we make each other laugh and have a good time. ‘We sometimes encounter people, even perfect strangers, who sometimes begin to interest us somehow suddenly all at once before a word is spoken,’ is the Dostoevsky quote from the play. And that’s how we felt.
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