Four actors of the My Generation cast have been featured in the Nylon September 2010 TV issue and Michael was one of them. The other three are Kelli Garner, Daniella Alonso and Keir O’Donnell.

Thanks to my friend Maria we have scans of the feature in the gallery. You can read the article below!

The premise of My Generation, premiering this fall on ABC, is like a mash-up of your favourite movies: A documentary crew follows a group of nine Texans during their senior year of high school and then catches up with them 10 years later. There’s “the overachiever” (Steven Foster, played by Michael Stahl-David), “the punk” (Dawn Barbuso, played by Kelli Garner), “the brain” (Brenda Serrano, played by Daniella Alonso), and six other archetypes who are coming to realize that life doesn’t always go quite the way you expect it to. According to Garner, the show is about “dealing with the ramifications of not being who you said you were going to be.” That means couples break up, careers are abandoned, and – yes – the wallflower gets with the class president. But it’s more than just a high school fantasy sequence: My Generation also references events and pop culture moments of the past decade (from Enron to OutKast to the recent oil spill). “It’s the idea of tying personal stories to history”, explains Stahl-David. Adds Keir O’Donnell, who plays Kenneth “the nerd” Finley, “They’ve come up with something that’s refreshing and new, but also very truthful. It’s something different – especially for TV. It feels more like a film.”

MICHAEL STAHL-DAVID

How would you describe Steven?
He’s pretty guarded. He’s been through a lot, [and so] he’s created a life in which he doesn’t have to deal with the past.

How would Steven describe the show?
He’d be kind of weirded out by it.

How has it been shooting My Generation?
It’s so fun, we’re improvising a ton to create this sense of these relationships in high school. We shot this prom scene and we literally just had a dance party – I jump in and do the worm.

Why should people watch My Generation?
Everybody’s going to be talking about it. People our age are totally going to get it.

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