As promised! We're very pleased to introduce the first episode of Icon Redux, an original BlackBook video series in partnership with Two Penguins Productions. We're taking classic, iconic personalities at their best (and/or most revealing) and recasting them with contemporary, hot, about-to-break personalities of the very near future. For this installment, young actor Yann Bean re-enacts James Dean's famous 1955 "driving safety" interview on the set of Giant, shortly before his death in a car accident; Yann's version takes place in a suite at New York's Hotel Gansevoort. After the jump, see the original interview, plus tips on what's to come.

The original James Dean interview:

Coming up: Check out our behind-the-scenes notes. Later, Audrey Hepburn gets angry at foolish questions, and Truman Capote interviews Marlon Brando.