A conversation with vulture senior writer e_alexjung about how he prepared for his interviews with MichaelaCoel and thandienewton, the state of the celebrity profile, and more
Vulture senior writer E. Alex Jung Photo: Vulture The team of journalists at New York works hard to bring you conversation-starting stories. But who exactly are these editors and writers? Get to know them with a New York Minute, our interview series where we ask staff about their lives and their careers. Next up: Vulture’s Senior Writer E. Alex Jung.
To start off — congratulations on two knockout features in New York Magazine’s annual television issue. Can you tell me a little about how you prepared for your conversations with Michaela Coel and Thandie Newton? I really think of interviews as creating space for an interesting conversation, and I’m willing to go as far as the subject is. The on-the-record interview is a totally weird construct with specific constraints and rules, but that doesn’t mean honest, vulnerable conversations can’t happen within it. In that sense, I think comparing it to therapy isn’t too far off; just because you pay for a therapist by the hour doesn’t mean that meaningful, important work doesn’t happen.
Obviously you lose “the scene” that comes from interacting in a physical space with them, but I think we’ve also seen how that became really hack “he says, eating a burger.” Initially, I thought it would be more difficult, but there is something about *these times* that I think is making all of us feel more open and vulnerable. But maybe that’s just the case with these two people!
Also I think it’s important to say that I’m usually writing about people who aren’t routinely on the covers of magazines. The people I care about and want to write about are people of color and queer people. One of the first long interviews I did was with John Cho back in 2016, and I remember wondering if he was a boring person, because every interview I had read with him was boring.
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