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Maya Hawke on the Fear of “Missing Out,” and Jen Silverman on “There’s Going to Be Trouble”

2024/4/16
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Maya Hawke：在音乐和表演事业之间，我感到很流畅，因为两者都源于我内心相同的地方——成为优秀团队成员的渴望。表演需要我扮演角色，但作为音乐人，我感觉更像是在展现真实的自己，只是需要鼓起勇气。创作歌曲《Missing Out》的灵感来自于我探望哥哥的经历，这让我反思了自己的选择，最终接受了自己的生活道路。我曾经对没上大学感到有些遗憾，但通过这次经历，我意识到自己的人生轨迹也很好。 Jen Silverman：我的小说《即将有麻烦》探讨了人们卷入抗议活动中的兴奋和不确定性。我通过两个时间线（2018年的法国黄背心运动和1968年的哈佛大学学生运动）展现了个人情感与历史政治背景的交织。抗议活动具有多面性，人们出于各种原因参与其中，例如欲望、野心、恐惧以及爱情。我着迷于人们如何被卷入政治，以及他们在群体中的行为与独自一人时的行为有何不同。抗议活动和派对都存在群体与个体之间的张力，人们在其中展现出不同的自我。我试图探索人们如何寻求改变，以及改变的可能性。

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At a band rehearsal in Brooklyn, Rachel Syme) talks to Maya Hawke about switching gears between acting and music. In “Stranger* *Things,” Hawke plays Robin Buckley, a band geek who cracks a Russian code in her spare time; she also recently appeared in films including “Asteroid City)” and “Maestro).” “When I’m acting, I inhabit the character that I’m playing,” Hawke says, whereas when fronting a band, “I feel like I’m me… But sometimes I have to screw my courage to the sticking place, and that’s a bit of a character. It’s me, [but] willing to stand up onstage.” Hawke discusses the inspiration for her single “Missing Out”: a visit to her brother at college, where she came to terms with some of her own choices. Plus, the playwright and novelist Jen Silverman, whose new book “There’s Going to Be Trouble)” deals with the excitement and uncertainty of getting caught up in a protest.