{"id":490678,"date":"2026-05-18T13:54:14","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T13:54:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/490678\/"},"modified":"2026-05-18T13:54:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T13:54:14","slug":"club-kid-jordan-firstman-cara-delevingne-and-diego-calva-interview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/490678\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Club Kid’ Jordan Firstman, Cara Delevingne And Diego Calva Interview"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tToday at Cannes A24 snapped up Jordan Firstman\u2019s Club Kid<\/a>, amidst multple eight-figure offers<\/a> following its premiere in Un Certain Regard where the film received a 7-minute standing ovation.<\/a><\/p>\n

\n\tFirstman was at Deadline\u2019s Cannes studio with co-stars Cara Delevingne and Diego Calva to talk about their experience making the film.<\/p>\n

\n\tIn Club Kid, Firstman stars as Peter, a drug-addled club promoter, whose working relationship with co-worked Sophie (Delevingne) has soured. Life has taken a downturn, when suddenly a British clubber called Edison (Kirby Howell-Baptiste) arrives on his doorstep with Arlo (Reggie Absolom), the 10 year-old son Peter never knew he had. With Arlo, and then his therapist (Calva) on the scene, Peter begins to learn to accept love in his life, and everything changes.<\/p>\n

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\n\tFirstman said of the inspiration behind the film, \u201cThere was a period in my life where \u2014 it\u2019s going to sound wrong \u2014 I was just around a bunch of kids for some reason. My friends started having kids and I was getting along with them in a funny way and they would always laugh at me with kids. So in the first iteration, I\u2019m just like, \u2018Oh, me and a kid, funny, ha ha. Adam Sandler, blah, blah, blah.\u2019 And then through the process of writing it, I went through a breakup and that partner and I, we partied a lot together. He was in Berlin and so I had just a lot of exposure to that scene and was just partying a lot myself and finding myself at this crossroads where the drugs were not hitting like they used to. But you keep doing them and you\u2019re like, \u2018So they\u2019re not working and I feel horrible for a week.\u2019 And so I kind of just wanted to explore that. And then as I kept writing, new things kept unfolding and honestly they keep unfolding. I still learn new things about the film and myself every time I watch it.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tDelevingne joked about her role of Sophie, \u201cIt\u2019s a real stretch playing a neurotic drug addict\u201d referring to her own experiences dealing with such issues.<\/p>\n

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\t\t\t\t\tL to R: Cara Delevingne, Jordan Firstman, Reggie Absolom and Diego Calva at the \u2018Club Kid\u2019 premiere in Cannes. France<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tNeilson Barnard\/Getty Images<\/p>\n

\n\tThe cast agreed that returning to the pre-Trump era depicted in the film was a joy. \u201cI feel like 2016 was the best year,\u201d Firstman said. \u201cRight before Trump got elected, it was like heaven. And that is why I brought music into the movie instantly because it\u2019s like we had Frank Ocean\u2019s Blonde, [Beyonc\u00e9\u2019s] Lemonade, [Kanye\u2019s] The Life of Pablo. Rihanna. It was the Solange album. It was the craziest year for music. Then Trump happened and life has been horrible ever since. It really hasn\u2019t gotten better for a day since then. So that summer of 2016 was just amazing and the parties were free and no one was on phones.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tDelevingne and Firstman had met before, she said. \u201cWe\u2019d met before. \u201cWe\u2019d met at parties and I really loved his work and I loved everything I knew about him and we just instantly connected. I think I was going through a transitional period of like, I don\u2019t want to do anything I don\u2019t care about with everything I have\u2026 I don\u2019t think I\u2019ve ever read a script like that and felt so enamored by it and felt the gravity of it, but also the levity at the same time.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tSophie also hits some serious lows in the story. \u201cI think her part in the movie is just also her finding her own way and making a huge mistakes and cutting away people that come close to her.\u201d She quoted the movie when she added, \u201cWhen you do cocaine you lose empathy.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tIn the film, Calva\u2019s therapist character Oscar forms a romantic relationship with Peter and Calva said he and Firstman had a real-life close bond. \u201cJordan has this superpower,\u201d Calva said. \u201cYou create this environment and through all our conversations and being on set \u2014 we shot in New York \u2014 and I was there and we partied and we became friends. But he creates this space when you\u2019re able to play and you feel safe, which is really important. I do think you have to fall in love for real in the movie, in every movie, in every character. And I think we fell in love.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tTo see the full conversation, click on the video above.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe Deadline Studio at Cannes is sponsored by\u00a0SCAD<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Today at Cannes A24 snapped up Jordan Firstman\u2019s Club Kid, amidst multple eight-figure offers following its premiere in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":490679,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[268],"tags":[10404,11519,213657,206010,434,212346,214147,18,117,19,17,212347],"class_list":["post-490678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-cannes","tag-cannes-film-festival","tag-cannes-studio","tag-cara-delevingne","tag-celebrities","tag-club-kid","tag-diego-calva","tag-eire","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-jordan-firstman"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116595921809712192","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490678","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=490678"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490678\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/490679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=490678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=490678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=490678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}