![]() Jemison hopes Herrings is enough of a success that he can take the LSU crew down to New Orleans and film a new project “with the exact same actors, like repertory cinema.” Much of the cast, and some of the crew, go way back to their LSU days, back to around the time Soderbergh was filming sex, lies, and videotape, and casting many of King of Herrings’ actors in his early movies. This is Jemison’s directorial debut, which he shares with co-director Sean Richardson. It looks very indie and cheap, but in this case that works quite splendidly. The film was shot in color, but given a high-contrast black-and-white treatment in post-production, a look that solidifies the film’s forgotten time and place. The world is lived in and worn, and the four characters are in no big rush to leave it. Cracked vinyl seats, flickering fluorescent lighting, bowling alleys, dog tracks, laundromats. They live in a world that must smell like old cigarettes and cheap beer. The film works not only because of its delicate sleight of hand with the star of the film - as Jemison says it, the film may play like a boys club but it’s really about Mary - but also because its characters chew the screen. “Everyone wanted to know the end of the story, so I knew I had something there that was working.” “I had this scene I wanted to write where a guy says ‘c**t’ a lot,” he says, adding that the class got involved and the film blossomed in front of him. The film came to be during an acting workshop in which Jemison was asked to write a script. “It was a blast being a big jerk with a Napoleon complex.” Me more obviously, but also Joe Chrest, who’s easily the most assertive of all of us,” he says. I’ve always hated that, but what can you do? For this, though, I cast everyone against type. He’s had small parts in Waitress, HBO’s Hung and Bruce Almighty, but he’s most recognizable in fellow Louisiana State University alum Steven Soderbergh’s films, including as sweaty computer expert Livingston Dell in the Ocean’s 11 movies. Jemison, as the pig-headed misanthrope, plays against type he is widely remembered as a dweebish character actor, frequently playing mild-mannered men in technical positions usually involving numbers or computer code. It’s her movie,” Jemison says of King of Herrings, which played at last year’s Phoenix Film Festival and is available digitally Tuesday. “Whenever people start thinking the movie goes too far, it really centers all back around on Mary. When Ditch pushes his caustic sense of humor a little too far within the group, The Professor (played by Joe Chrest) plans a retaliatory strike by befriending Mary, Ditch’s lonely seamstress wife. Lamson plays Mary, much-better half to Jemison’s Ditch, the wildly offensive leader to his circle of misfits and miscreants. Jemison admits the word is tempered not by his four male stars, but by the film’s female lead played by the lovely actress Laura Lamson, the actor-director’s real-life wife. On the other side, though, people hear the word and laugh they aren’t grossed out.” Old ladies, as it turns out, don’t like it. “But a lot of people are turned off by it. It was their scene and their language,” Jemison says of the word. “The Sex Pistols called each other c**ts. Which is why he spent some time shrugging his shoulders at little old ladies at festival screenings of King of Herrings, a film he wrote, co-directed and starred in that follows four on-again/off-again buddies who are not shy about dropping the taboo word that many American audiences still cringe at. ![]() When given the choice, Eddie Jemison C-words. Online Eddie recently starred in the web-series Self-Storage.To C-word or not to C-word. ![]() Offered a contract to continue playing the wildly popular character, Eddie instead chose to pursue music for a time, which prompted the creation of the now famous " Budweiser Frogs". In the mid-1990s, before starting a film career, he starred in a series of Bud Light commercials with the tagline "Yes, I am". Jemison also performed in The Two Gentlemen of Verona and As You Like It at the Chicago Shakespeare Theater. His stage credits include The Wizards of Quiz at the National Jewish Theatre Only Kidding at the Wisdom Bridge Theatre Loot at Tulane Repertory A Christmas Carol at the Goodman Theatre Talking to Myself and Holiday Memories at the Northlight Theatre and T Bone N Weasel at Victory Gardens. Jemison is a veteran of the Chicago theatre scene. He has made multiple appearances on Late Night with David Letterman, and starred in television pilots for NBC and ABC. He graduated from Louisiana State University where he was a member of the Delta Chi Fraternity. He was raised in Kenner, Louisiana and attended a Catholic secondary school, Archbishop Rummel High School. Uncle of Stuart Patterson, from Aberdeen Scotland. Jemison was born in New Orleans, Louisiana, the son of Rosalie (née Centanni) and Edward Francis Jemison.
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