Jane Schoenbrun

1 sketch, 10 claims, and 6 fun items attributed to them. What was said about them.

Personality, episode by episode

The Big Picture: The Final Girl Film Canon and ‘Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma’ With Gillian Anderson, Hannah Einbinder, and Jane Schoenbrun! (guest)

Loves genre mischief, Stillman dialogue, camp and the end-of-the-world intensity of Evangelion. Does not want to keep making pure-pain films; likes goofy, funny material and wants a long, surprising career. Embarrassed in youth by earnest music like Counting Crows and Bright Eyes, now reclaiming it.

Stances

  • Wanted a movie that did not deplete them
  • Counting Crows deserve reclamation
  • Trans person in Hollywood is tokenized and commodified

Humor: Self-deprecating and goofy, a class-clown streak.

In their words

  • “I'm like pretty goofy and funny, you know,” (1:20:08)
  • “That's like one of the great films.” (1:52:09)
  • “deserving of some reclamation.” (1:49:10)

Their shows' recurring bits

Running bits, not opinions; a critic read aloud is cited, not present.

The Big Picture

Their claims

Showing 1–10 of 10 claims.

  1. people (people): Gillian Anderson → Hannah Einbinder. Jane paired the two because no one had put two such actors in a deranged erotic thriller.
    “there's never been a, a, like, pairing of like 2 actors who are starring in like an erotic thriller of sorts that's been quite deranged in this style.”
    The Big Picture · The Final Girl Film Canon and ‘Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma’ With Gillian Anderson, Hannah Einbinder, and Jane Schoenbrun! · 1:08:30 · Jane Schoenbrun (0.90 sure it was them)
  2. people (people): Gillian Anderson → Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma. Jane says few actors can make the entrance Anderson makes in the movie.
    “there are very few actors who can like make the entrance that Jillian makes in this movie”
    The Big Picture · The Final Girl Film Canon and ‘Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma’ With Gillian Anderson, Hannah Einbinder, and Jane Schoenbrun! · 1:10:35 · Jane Schoenbrun (0.90 sure it was them)
  3. career (career): Hannah Einbinder → Hacks. Hannah's Hacks dynamic with Jean Smart informs her casting; Jane knew her first through Hacks and her stand-up special.
    “And Hannah, I was a fan of through hacks, but I watched her stand-up special.”
    The Big Picture · The Final Girl Film Canon and ‘Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma’ With Gillian Anderson, Hannah Einbinder, and Jane Schoenbrun! · 1:11:34 · Jane Schoenbrun (0.90 sure it was them)
  4. craft (craft): Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma → Whit Stillman. Jane wanted fast-paced Stillman-like dialogue with stoner goofs.
    “fast-paced with Stillman kind of dialogue and stonery”
    The Big Picture · The Final Girl Film Canon and ‘Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma’ With Gillian Anderson, Hannah Einbinder, and Jane Schoenbrun! · 1:21:27 · Jane Schoenbrun (0.90 sure it was them)
  5. career (career): Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma → I Saw the TV Glow. Jane felt freed of the 'sad teen' shadow of TV Glow while making Miasma.
    “liberated from some, some like conception of myself post TV glow”
    The Big Picture · The Final Girl Film Canon and ‘Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma’ With Gillian Anderson, Hannah Einbinder, and Jane Schoenbrun! · 1:22:14 · Jane Schoenbrun (0.90 sure it was them)
  6. industry (industry): Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma → Leprechaun reboot. The film's zombie-IP premise grew from Jane being sent scripts and a Leprechaun reboot after World's Fair.
    “But I also got submitted the leprechaun reboot.”
    The Big Picture · The Final Girl Film Canon and ‘Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma’ With Gillian Anderson, Hannah Einbinder, and Jane Schoenbrun! · 1:29:11 · Jane Schoenbrun (0.90 sure it was them)
  7. craft (craft): Eric → Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma. On the first shoot day the cinematographer Eric wanted a close-up of Anderson patting the chicken, which helped open the film up for Hannah.
    “Eric was like, we got to get it close up for that chicken pad.”
    The Big Picture · The Final Girl Film Canon and ‘Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma’ With Gillian Anderson, Hannah Einbinder, and Jane Schoenbrun! · 1:40:38 · Jane Schoenbrun (0.60 sure it was them)
  8. craft (music): Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma → Adam Duritz. Jane chose Long December over Night Swimming for the scene and then texted Counting Crows' Adam Duritz about it.
    “I think this might be a better choice than night swimming and night swimming is like my favorite song.”
    The Big Picture · The Final Girl Film Canon and ‘Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma’ With Gillian Anderson, Hannah Einbinder, and Jane Schoenbrun! · 1:47:07 · Jane Schoenbrun (0.90 sure it was them)
  9. lineage (lineage): Counting Crows → Bright Eyes. Jane places Counting Crows in a lineage of earnest music boys were embarrassed to like, alongside Bright Eyes.
    “there's like a lineage of like people that was like embarrassing to like if you were a boy.”
    The Big Picture · The Final Girl Film Canon and ‘Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma’ With Gillian Anderson, Hannah Einbinder, and Jane Schoenbrun! · 1:48:45 · Jane Schoenbrun (0.90 sure it was them)
  10. verdict (verdict): Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma → The End of Evangelion. Jane called End of Evangelion one of the great films and the right mindset for a press tour.
    “That's like one of the great films.”
    The Big Picture · The Final Girl Film Canon and ‘Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma’ With Gillian Anderson, Hannah Einbinder, and Jane Schoenbrun! · 1:52:09 · Jane Schoenbrun (0.90 sure it was them)

Their fun items

Showing 1–6 of 6 fun items.

  1. fun, about Jane Schoenbrun: Jane's first horror film was a grandmother's copy of Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein, and as a kid watched the first South Park broadcast with their parents.
    “I think technically was my grandma's copy of Abbott and Costello meet Frankenstein.”
    The Big Picture · The Final Girl Film Canon and ‘Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma’ With Gillian Anderson, Hannah Einbinder, and Jane Schoenbrun! · 1:04:30 · Jane Schoenbrun (0.90 sure it was them)
  2. fun, about Jane Schoenbrun: Jane was submitted a Leprechaun reboot after World's Fair, suspecting studios thought a trans director would cancel out criticism.
    “I think they're sending this to me because they think that like trans will cancel out.”
    The Big Picture · The Final Girl Film Canon and ‘Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma’ With Gillian Anderson, Hannah Einbinder, and Jane Schoenbrun! · 1:29:18 · Jane Schoenbrun (0.90 sure it was them)
  3. fun, about Camp Miasma (chicken pat): Jane says the film opened up for them when Anderson patted the chicken at dinner; the cinematographer wanted a close-up of the chicken pat.
    “we got to get it close up for that chicken pad.”
    The Big Picture · The Final Girl Film Canon and ‘Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma’ With Gillian Anderson, Hannah Einbinder, and Jane Schoenbrun! · 1:40:38 · Jane Schoenbrun (0.90 sure it was them)
  4. fun, about Counting Crows: Jane wrote the script after a big 2024 breakup, leaning on Counting Crows records, and ended up swapping Night Swimming for Long December in the key scene.
    “I wrote the script for nights swimming”
    The Big Picture · The Final Girl Film Canon and ‘Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma’ With Gillian Anderson, Hannah Einbinder, and Jane Schoenbrun! · 1:46:34 · Jane Schoenbrun (0.50 sure it was them)
  5. fun, about Adam Duritz: Adam Duritz told Jane he had always wanted Long December to be part of a killer scene.
    “he said, I've always wanted Long December to be part of a killer warner.”
    The Big Picture · The Final Girl Film Canon and ‘Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma’ With Gillian Anderson, Hannah Einbinder, and Jane Schoenbrun! · 1:47:57 · Jane Schoenbrun (0.80 sure it was them)
  6. fun, about The End of Evangelion: Jane saw it at a Regal during a night off with an extra large icee; the last line, 'disgusting,' fit the press tour week.
    “And at the end of that movie, the last line is just disgusting.”
    The Big Picture · The Final Girl Film Canon and ‘Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma’ With Gillian Anderson, Hannah Einbinder, and Jane Schoenbrun! · 1:52:12 · Jane Schoenbrun (0.90 sure it was them)