On the way teens present different versions of themselves online It really strangely was much more currently personal to me than it was personal then. I was having panic attacks backstage at the Wilbur Theater instead of in a bathroom before a pool party, but the feelings are the same. I relate much more to Kayla emotionally now than I did then. I was in and out of the hospital with stomach problems thinking I had some gastro issue, and it really was, "Oh, I'm just nervous.". On having anxiety later in life than KaylaĪs an eighth-grade boy I was kind of a hammy loser, and my anxiety didn't really wake up until I was maybe a sophomore in high school. "And then I would talk about those problems in that circumstance onstage and afterwards kids - 14-, 13-year-old girls - would come up to me and say, 'I know exactly what you're going through.
"I was feeling a very acute anxiety from my job of performing," he says. Burnham says the character was inspired by a period in his early 20s when he was dealing with panic attacks onstage. The film centers on a socially awkward 13-year-old girl named Kayla who's navigating the final year of middle school. Now 27, he's taken a turn behind the camera with a new film, Eighth Grade, that looks at what it's like to grow up in the age of social media. Burnham says the anxiety he felt as a young performer helped him understand the social pressure teenage girls can experience.Ĭomic Bo Burnham was still in high school when the satirical songs he posted on the Internet went viral - making him one of YouTube's first stars.
Writer and director Bo Burnham talks with Elsie Fisher on the set of Eighth Grade.
0 kommentar(er)
