Celebrity children lunging into the limelight are nothing new. But rarely are they known for bold, risky moves — except for Ella Dershowitz.
The 23-year-old didn’t follow in the footsteps of her father, Alan Dershowitz, and become a hotshot lawyer. Instead of a J.D. at Yale, she got a B.A. in theater.
Now she stands apart from her cautious peers. Meryl Streep’s daughter Mamie Gummer goes from “Les Liaisons Dangereuses” on Broadway to a medical TV show. David Mamet’s kid, Zosia, co-stars on HBO’s Home for Privileged Offspring, a k a “Girls.”
Dershowitz, on the other hand, is baring all in the latest by downtown provoc-auteur Thomas Bradshaw, a guy known for graphic, boundary-pushing plays.
In “Intimacy,” opening Thursday, Dershowitz plays Janet, a sexy 18-year-old who covets a career in porn. She gets the ball rolling, so to speak, with a photo shoot in Barely Legal magazine, then graduates to movies.
All this requires her to go full frontal and deliver matter-of-factly explicit dialogue.
We’re quite a way from her bit part as a private-school girl in the Funny or Die video “Macy Madness.”
If the kid got one thing from her dad, it’s chutzpah.