LAUGHING AT EVERYTHING WITH JORDAN FIRSTMAN
Talking upcoming projects and personal style with the multi-talented filmmaker
Whether he’s posting hyper-creative and hilariously niche impressions or wearing outrageous yet on-trend fits, you get the sense Jordan Firstman is having fun with it. The writer, producer, comedian and actor is known for his self-aware mix of irony and honesty that leaves you wondering where one ends and the other begins. Either way, he’s laughing and you can’t help yourself but laugh too.
Already an acclaimed television writer for shows such as Search Party and Big Mouth, Firstman blew up during the pandemic for his absurd impressions of abstract concepts and inanimate objects, garnering a slew of celebrity fans and making him a refreshing internet star in an otherwise dismal period of humanity.
Now thanks to those videos, Firstman’s career is taking off. He’s in the upcoming Netflix film starring Jonah Hill and Eddie Murphy, called You People, he has a role in the upcoming Marvel series Mrs. Marvel and is also just finished filming a racy indie film in Mexico called Rotting in the Sun. “It’s funny, because I’m filming a Disney (Marvel) series one month and doing sex scenes for another project the next.”
The range of his acting projects speaks to the sense of authenticity that Firstman brings to every aspect of his life, an almost innate ability to mix seemingly unrelated things together and make you appreciate their insanity. This is never more apparent than with his home. To an undiscerning eye, the beautiful modernist architecture of his Dion Neutra-designed Silverlake apartment might seem to stand at odds with his surrealist interior design --- each room is decked out with wildly different themes --- Yet this mix of refinement and extravagance perfectly encapsulates his own charmingly chaotic taste.
His personal style is much the same, a mix of high and low – ranging from cutting-edge designer pieces to ironic thrift store pickups. A blurring of genres and aesthetics. An appreciation of both elevated design and the kitsch imitations that inevitably follow. He can put something on, laugh at himself and then still be deadly serious about wearing the hell out of it.