Jacob mcneal (academy award® winner robert downey jr.) is a great writer, one of our greatest, a perpetual candidate for the nobel prize in literature The actor plays a brilliant writer and pretentious jerk named jacob mcneal, whose dream is to win the nobel prize in literature — a lincoln center hero if there ever was one. But mcneal also has an.
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Certainly jacob mcneal, played by the formidable robert downey jr., is more a data set than a character
Mcneal, a new play by pulitzer winner ayad akhtar starring robert downey jr
In his broadway debut, premiered at lincoln center theater's vivian beaumont earlier this. Makes his broadway debut in ‘mcneal,’ a vexing play about the intersection of art and artificial intelligence that leaves more questions than it answers Downey stars as jacob mcneal, a celebrated author fixated on artificial intelligence—and the nobel peace prize in literature. Downey plays the titular character, jacob mcneal, an acclaimed novelist whose battles with alcoholism and mental illness culminate at a crucial juncture in his career.
The play stars downey as jacob mcneal, a prolific scribe and perpetual candidate for the nobel prize in literature.
