Tavi Gevinson

Bullseye with Jesse Thorn

Jesse Thorn

Society & Culture

4.5 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 15 November 2024

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Tavi Gevinson is a very talented actor and writer. She was just fifteen years old when she founded the fashion magazine Rookie, a smash success that is still beloved today. She returns to the show to talk about some of her new projects, what impacts social media has had on her career and how she dealt with the pressure of being called a wunderkind.

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0:45.4	It's Bolzai. I'm Jesse Thorne. Being a kid is hard, right? So many choices get made for you.
0:51.2	People who make those choices, grown-ups, don't often feel like explaining themselves.
0:58.5	Can't drive to in and out and get a double-double whenever you feel like it. Then maybe you get to high school and you can finally drive and get that double double, but have you picked out of college? What are you
1:03.0	going to be for the rest of your life? Now, add to all of that another wrinkle, being a gifted
1:08.5	child. You can play the violin like a fancy adult. You can read like a
1:14.6	college student. You're in middle school, but you can paint landscapes like somebody with an MFA. Think about
1:20.0	all the pressure that that applies. The pressure to keep doing that thing you're good at for the rest of
1:25.2	your life, the pressure to keep getting better and better at that thing, so your peers never catch up with you. So many opportunities to fail and
1:33.6	disappoint. It sounds exhausting, right? Tavi Gevinson was a gifted child. He started keeping a
1:40.7	fashion block when she was only 11 years old. It was a monumental success. Then at
1:46.0	15, she founded Rookie, a teen magazine that covered fashion and gender and pop music. It was
1:52.8	fun and frivolous, serious and thoughtful, always engrossing, a real special achievement. That
1:59.4	magazine ended its run in 2018.
2:02.6	So now, Tabi is no longer a gifted child because, well, that kind of thing only lasts so long by definition.
2:11.1	So what comes after that?
2:13.4	For Tubby Gevinson, gifted adulthood.
2:17.1	Seriously, she is so talented.
2:19.5	She has acted in movies, on television, on and off-Broadway,
2:23.7	and she remains a writer.
2:26.1	Last month, she released Glimpses of the Moon.
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