Following 13-year-old Kayla’s (Elsie Fisher) final week of middle school in contemporary suburban America, Eighth Grade charts the hilarious highs and heartbreaking lows of adolescence with agonizingly funny honesty and humor.
Join Burnham with Teen Vogue's Lauren Duca to hear how this 27-year-old star made the rapid transition from teen YouTube sensation to in-demand comic to filmmaker — and why he’s revisiting the traumas of middle school in his first big-screen outing.
Recorded on July 22, 2018 at 92nd Street Y.
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