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In "Unscripted," Bryan Greenberg plays
Bryan Greenberg.
Unscripted as well. He just finished
CURT SCHLEIER
filming
a movie, Prime, in New York,
Special to the Jewish News
and Unscripted cameras were there,
too.
cyan Greenberg is a young
It's a good time for Greenberg, who
actor, and young actors make
spent most of his childhood in Omaha,
mistakes.
Neb. "Yes, I'm the one," he said, refer-
He lands a small role on ER. and
ring to the Jewish population of the
offends one of the regulars by not rec-
city. (Actually there is a small-but-
ognizing him. He pads his resume and
is caught in the lie by a casting director. active Jewish population there.)
Greenberg grew up in a Conservative
He shows up on a casting call for a
household, was bar mitzvah, belonged
film called Wild Wind in motorcycle
to Jewish youth
groups, went to
Jewish summer
camps and spent
time in Israel.
Both of his parents
are psychologists,
"which just drove
me crazy," he
jokes.
His family
moved to St.
Louis, where his
parents still live,
when he was 12.
He subsequently
Bryan Greenberg and Nick Paonessa in HBO's "Unscripted" attended NYU
and got a few
small parts on TV and in commercials.
gear, only to discover the movie is a
There were times (as on Unscripted)
western.
when he'd have a line and be edited out
It's all part of a new HBO series
of a show.
called Unscripted that premieres
The way the consistent rejection
Sunday, Jan. 9, at 10 p.m. The show is
funny and sad, a mix of fact and fiction received by actors is portrayed on
Unscripted appeals to Greenberg. "I like
that in many ways resembles HBO'S
the show because pretty much all you
The Larry Sanders Show's behind-the-
hear [from casting directors] is, 'No,
scenes glimpse of television talk shows.
This time, the focus is the life of young no, no, no, no.' The public thinks
actors have an easy life of luxury, but
actors.
,
that's like a half of a percent.'
Further blurring the lines is that the
Greenberg admits he looks Jewish —
actor Bryan Greenberg in Unscripted is
and some actors feel that hurts their
played by an actor whose name really
career. Greenberg, however, is happy
happens to be Bryan Greenberg. (In
with the way he looks.
fact, with the exception of Frank
"Are you kidding?" he says. "I had
Langella, who plays acting teacher
four nose jobs already to get this nose.
Goddard Fulton, all of the principals
I've gotten, 'He's too Jewish.' But I also
use their real names.)
won roles, too."
While the show is billed as fiction,
In Prime, he plays a young Jewish
"it's all based on true stories" shared by
man dating an older woman (Uma
cast and crew, the 26-year-old
Thurman) against his mother's (Meryl
Greenberg said in a phone interview
Streep) wishes.
from Los Angeles. But there's reality,
too.
Greenberg recently signed on for an
Unscripted premieres 10 p.m.
eight-episode arc on One Tree Hill the
Sunday, Jan. 9, on HBO.
WB teen series, so that became part of
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