“Asking for It” was Eamon O’Rourke’s entry into the filmmaking and political worlds. It’s been over ten years since he started working in Hollywood.
He’s a multi-talented New Yorker who’s worked on hit movies like “The Wolf of Wall Street” in several capacities, including as a ghostwriter, screenwriter, actor, and production assistant.
O’Rourke is a filmmaker and executive producer of the company Me and My Friends, whose mission is to provide new perspectives and underrepresented stories to the Hollywood film industry.
In March of 2022, Paramount Pictures released a cinematic version of Asking for It, based on the novel by Eamon of the same name.
Some of The Actors He’s Worked With
Asking for It, starring Vanessa Hudgens and Luke Hemsworth, is an inherently unsanctionable narrative. An integral part of the plot, Joey works with a band of female vigilantes to avenge victims of rape committed by frat boys and corrupt law enforcement.
The film’s writer-director, Eamon, tried to cast a diverse group of actors, including Native Americans and people of all sexual orientations and identities.
O’Rourke used his multiethnic ensemble as a compass, and the film’s depiction of the area is accurate. “I tried my best to find out how to produce this movie ethically, to do it in a way where I’m not telling them this is what the experience is,” he says.
Thanks mainly to Eamon O’Rourke’s original concept, Asking for It was awarded a ReFrame Stamp for its commitment to diversity and inclusion in the workplace.
O’Rourke is committed to issues outside show business, such as immigrant rights, reproductive justice, economic equality, and the drug crisis in New York City.
He’s helped recovering addicts in New York City learn to act and improvise and volunteered to help low-income New Yorkers find legal representation.
Eamon may easily be found at any demonstration supporting the NoDAPL, Occupy Wall Street, Black Lives Matter, or abortion rights.
It’s no secret that both of Eamon O’Rourke’s parents were nontraditional lecturers. During his two years of teaching at the Pierrepont School, where his mother had previously served as principal, O’Rourke profited from the unique perspectives of his students.
The loss of his parents had such a profound effect on O’Rourke that he has made it his life’s work to console the bereaved.