The Chilean filmmaker Sebastian Silva and the actor Jordan Firstman dissect the doppelgängers they play in the black comedy “Rotting in the Sun.”
The Chilean filmmaker Sebastian Silva surveyed a Brooklyn gay bar the other night and found it wanting. It was too cold, too empty, and he was starving. He pitched a companion, the writer and actor Jordan Firstman, on an alternative: Speedy Romeo, a pizza joint. The place was packed, and Silva wasn’t getting anywhere with a surly waitress. “What can we do to get her to like us?” Firstman asked.
One of seven siblings in a conservative Catholic milieu—his eldest brother is now a prominent far-right lawmaker in Chile—the young Silva, who was in the closet, gravitated toward psychedelics and philosophy, devouring Castaneda. “I couldn’t wait to be eighteen to do mescaline,” he said. The impulse shaped his 2013 breakout film, “Crystal Fairy & the Magical Cactus,” in which Michael Cera plays an American tourist in Chile embarking on his own hallucinogenic quest.
Firstman was raised on Long Island and was openly gay by the time he was a teen-ager. At twenty-one, he moved to Los Angeles without a plan; after a series of short films and writing gigs on such shows as “Search Party,” his viral impressions made him a social-media celebrity. Until the dinner in Mexico City, Silva had inhabited a totally different corner of the Internet. “I don’t follow influencers. I don’t follow people that post selfies. I don’t follow actors,” he said.
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