Jeremy Jordan’s Next Act: ‘Spinning Gold,’ Fatherhood, and Chest Hair
Jeremy Jordan is getting ready for the release of one of the biggest projects of his career, and he has one very important question: What happened to his merkin?
The unconventional hair piece plays a vital part in Spinning Gold, the new movie in which Jordan plays Neil Bogart, a record executive who founded Casablanca Records in the 1970s and who was responsible for the breakout careers of Kiss, Donna Summer, the Village People, George Clinton’s Parliament, and Joan Jett. In many ways, the role marks a transformation for Jordan—a scruffier character than the clean-faced romantic lead has played before.
The Broadway and screen star has the kind of jawline that Hallmark romances were made for—he starred in his first one last year—and a Disney-minted earnestness that has defined much of his career. His biggest breakout was playing the lead, Jack Kelly, in the 2012 Broadway mounting of Newsies, which took on an even bigger life when Disney released a film of the stage production on Disney+. That wholesome appeal translated to his longest-running TV roles, on the musical series Smash and the CW series Supergirl. Heck, even his first movie role was in 2012’s Joyful Noise, a film about a gospel choir that starred, of all people, Dolly Parton.