Where the Wild Things Are, besides being an inspiration for Earwig, has impacted many area's of Max's life. Max would love a turn in Broadway's current smash, Book of Mormon, but says he is no singer and avoids musicals if he can help it The play features Charles Schulz’s Peanuts characters (Matt being Pigpen) in situations and stories a little too provocative for your average small town newspaper. Max's favorite role was Matt from Dog Sees God at UMiami in 2009. He has appeared in everything from Mowgli in Jungle Book to a pimp in An Adult Evening w/ Shel Silverstein. Max has been acting in theatre productions since middle school and says his family is very supportive with his dad being his biggest fan. should make it easier to get the stuff out there.'īelow: Max in Dog Sees God: Confessions of a Teenage Blockhead (2009) 'I plan to make two more shorts and package them all as a feature film comprised of shorts. I don’t really know what I was thinking (other than “FML”) but I made sure to publicly thank my dad and brothers for sitting through films that must have made them wildly uncomfortable.'Īs for what s next for Earwig and DipSpit, both films recently played at the North Carolina GLFF, and Max has submitted them a few other places and is awaiting word back. 'I hope the projector does not fuck up” Then the projector fucked up during DipSpit and the movie didn’t get to finish. I asked Max what was going through his head on the night of April 26th as the lights dimmed in the Theatre just before audiences first saw his film? The film is loosely based on an actual experience when he was a freshman dealing with his own sexuality and social anxiety at UM. While both films are based on personal experiences, Max says Earwig is the most important to him. DipSpit is a comedy about two male models who are kicked out of the 8th and Ocean model dorms and go to live with a gay college student down the street. It's a tragedy about drug abuse, self-abuse and finally self-acceptance. My first introduction to Max was not through his modeling, but through reading previews for Earwig and DipSpit, two films Max both wrote and directed which premiered at the Miami Gay and Lesbian Film Festival this past April.Įarwig, a drama, is an adaptation of two stories: Where the Wild Things Are and The Bacchae. In the case of model, actor, director, filmmaker and writer Max Emerson, each of the adjectives fits, but the last one, writer, was the one most impressive to me. Often when people have multiple adjectives pretentiously in front of their name, (you know, actor, writer, model, director, brain surgeon, agent) only one word, usually only the last one, really fits Actress, singer and dancer Britney Spears- Dancer, singer, reality show host Paula Abdul- actor, comedian, asshole, Tracy Morgan. I spent my summer vacation as the Shirtless Dude in front of the new Hollister Epic store in Soho and it was far from the easy day job that the Abercrombie/Hollister Corporation’s recruiters - similar to the flying monkeys from The Wizard of Oz - made it out to be.' 'Making it in New York City is difficult, even when you’re willing to sell your body.
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