It’s noon in Brooklyn, Edmund Donovan is posing for photos in front of an old-timey soda shop, and the moment is starting to feel very meta. A young USPS driver is parked along the curb, watching the energetic actor at work, and strikes up a conversation: he’s been taking notes for his own burgeoning modeling career.
The intersection of day jobs, creativity and mentorship play out on-screen in Donovan’s film “Late Fame,” in theaters on Friday. The movie costars Willem Dafoe as a poet-turned-postal worker, whose obscure book is idolized years after its publication by a group of young aspiring creatives. Leading the charge is Donovan’s character Meyers, a young twentysomething who’s wistful for a bygone era in New York and recruits the elder poet as a de facto mentor for the group.
Set in modern-day New York, the film was adapted from a 1985 novella written by Arthur Schnitzler, about Vienna’s café society scene. “Late Fame” premiered at the Venice Film Festival last year and went on to screen during the New York Film Festival before it was acquired by Magnolia Pictures.
“In my 20s, I went to college and then to graduate school — both for acting — and I put
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