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Gen Xers are explaining that weird moment in the late ’90s when everyone got into swing music

Every Gen Xer remembers a small moment in time when swing music was extremely popular in the late ’90s. Swing went from nonexistent to an alt-rock radio mainstay from 1996 to 1998 and then, it was gone in a flash.

During that time, young people rushed to their nearest dance studios to learn the Lindy Hop and bought up old-school, retro suits and fedoras. Swing clubs started popping up all over the country and MTV played swing-inspired videos such as “Hell” by Squirrel Nut Zippers, “Jump Jive an’ Wail” by Brian Setzer Orchestra and “You and Me (and the Bottle Makes Three)” by Big Bad Voodoo Daddy.

Film editor Simone Smith asked Gen X to explain what the hell was going on in the late ’90s that led to swing music making a huge comeback.

It’s always hard to figure out how specific trends crop up, but according to Kenneth Partridge from Billboard, it began with the formation of Royal Crown Revue in 1989 by two members of the seminal L.A. punk band Youth Brigade. Royal Crown Revue’s old-school ’40s tough-guy aesthetic was something punks could relate to while also bringing back the danceable ’40s sound.

The band had a Wednesday night residency at L.A.’s The Derby before turning it over to Big bad Voodoo Daddy, who were featured in John Favreau’s 1996 surprise hit “Swingers.”

“Swingers” was probably the most important moment in the swing revival. The film centered around friends who roam L.A. like a modern-day Rat Pack to a soundtrack featuring Dean Martin, Count Basie and Big Bad Voodoo Daddy.

Others attribute swing’s rise in popularity to “A League of their Own,” (1992) “Swing Kids” (1993) and “The Mask” (1994).

In 1998, The Gap brought swing to the mainstream with its “Khakis Swing” commercial, featuring good-looking young people Lindy-hopping to the sounds of Louis Prima.

​On a psychological level, the swing craze seemed to be a pivot from the dreariness of grunge rock that began to fade from the public consciousness by around 1996. Some also think that the upbeat, fun music was a response to the return to the prosperity of Clinton-era America.

At the same time, rave culture, which was also centered around dancing and had an upbeat aesthetic, was becoming popular as well.

Some Gen Xers did their best to explain the phenomenon that felt like it came out of nowhere.

Swing music? it could have been worse.

Smith may be confused that there was a big swing craze in the ’90s, but she should also know that it wasn’t the only strange musical comeback of the era. What in the world was the whole Gregorian chant craze about?

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‘Succession’ Star Brian Cox Thinks Logan Has ‘Endless Disappointment’ In His Scheming, Screwed-Up Children

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Succession is back, after a long and understandable delay, and it’s like they haven’t missed a beat. The Roy family is still troubled, but in new and unexpected ways. Season 2 ended with Kendall (Jeremy Strong) effectively assassinating his dad, Logan (Brian Cox), to his proud bemusement. But over the five episodes that comprise Season 3 thus far, including the new one about a truly chaotic shareholders meeting, we’ve learned he wasn’t so much Machiavellian as making it up as he goes along. And while viewers are loving the new season, it’s clear Logan sees it all as a major letdown.

Cox spoke with IndieWire about the new season so far, and he opened up about Logan’s complicated emotions. He, of course, wears those feelings close to the vest, and when he speaks — even to seemingly praise Kendall, as he did during a trick pow-wow in episode four — it’s not clear how much of it is sincere. Cox calls Logan’s thoughts “paradoxical and conflicted,” and as an example he cites Kendall’s actions in the Season 2 finale mic drop.

“It does feel good. The boy is finally standing up for himself,” Cox says. But, he adds, “he’s also feeling, well, he’s only standing up for himself because two hours before I told him he had to be a killer. And what does he do? He goes out and kills me. You go, well, that’s funny. And then you go, it’s a bit obvious as well.”

But Logan’s “paradoxical and conflicted” feelings aren’t only reserved for Kendall. It’s for Roman (Kieran Culkin), Shiv (Sarah Snook), even the older Connor (Alan Ruck):

At same time, there’s the endless disappointment that he has, that he tries to counteract because he tries to maintain his love — and it’s not difficult for him because he does love his kids — the endless disappointment is painful to the character of Logan. The fact that the boys and the girls, they can’t see the game. It’s a game, but like all games, even when it’s a matter of life and death, it’s still a game. And they can’t see it.

Where Logan is more reserved, Cox argues, the Roy kids are too bound up in their “egos,” and that while he knows how to navigate through their antics, “deep, deep, down there is the sense he’s sick of this endless betrayal and the endless treachery that he’s living around.”

Cox also sees Logan as “deeply loyal,” citing not only his close relationships with his children but also longtime employees like Gerri (J. Smith-Cameron), Karl (David Rasche), and Frank (Peter Friedman), even though he’s “fired and rehired and fired and rehired” them over their many years together.

Then there’s that Episode 4 pow-wow, during which he briefly praises Kendall in front of Adrien Brody’s Josh Aaronson only to give Kendall the silent treatment when he walks away. “Well, he also says, you’ll say anything to get f*cked on a date, so that’s a giveaway,” Cox says, before elaborating on his methods:

But he’s in tune that way. Of course, he does see Kendall’s gifts more than Kendall sees. He does see Kendall’s potential even and he has this ambition for his son, but his son doesn’t get it. You can lead a horse to water but you can’t make the thing drink and this is what he’s constantly doing. He’s constantly leading his children to the pool and then they will not consume. And that’s understandable because they’ve lost trust. They don’t know who this man is. The real bugbear is they really don’t know who their father is. They don’t understand their father. They think they do, but they don’t. And I think that’s kind of the mystery. And the story really is who Logan is.

Yes, but how good would Logan be on the basketball court? Perhaps better than you’d think.
Succession airs Sundays on HBO and HBO Max starting at 9pm.

(Via IndieWire)

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ER doctor in Canada writes ‘climate change’ on patient’s chart in an unprecedented diagnosis

As record-breaking heat and out-of-control wildfires raged in the beautiful Canadian province of British Columbia this past summer, people started arriving to the emergency room of Kootenay Lake Hospital with symptoms of heat illness.

Dr. Kyle Merritt, the head of the emergency department, told the Times Colonist that most of the doctors at the hospital had only seen such heat illness in medical school. Now they found themselves with a flood of it as the temperatures rose.

“We were having to figure out how do we cool someone in the emergency department,” said Merritt. “People are running out to the Dollar Store to buy spray bottles.”

A patient arrived who was struggling to breathe. The smoke from the wildfires in the area hadn’t lifted for days, and the patient’s asthma was being aggravated by it.

Merritt took the patient’s chart and wrote two words he’d never written on a chart before: “climate change.”

When asked why he did it, Merritt said, “If we’re not looking at the underlying cause, and we’re just treating the symptoms, we’re just gonna keep falling further and further behind.”

“It’s me trying to just…process what I’m seeing,” he said. “We’re in the emergency department, we look after everybody, from the most privileged to the most vulnerable, from cradle to grave, we see everybody. And it’s hard to see people, especially the most vulnerable people in our society, being affected. It’s frustrating.”

Merritt said a woman in her 70s who lived in a trailer with no air-conditioning had come into the ER. She was struggling to stay hydrated, and the heat was exacerbating her other health conditions, including diabetes and some heart failure. Patients like her, with multiple health problems and little money, will be the most affected by the climate crisis.

However, we’re all seeing that there’s no escaping its impact. Hundreds died during this summer’s heat dome in western Canada and the northwestern United States. An entire Canadian village was wiped out by wildfire as temperatures reached a record 121 degrees this summer. We’ve been told for years that climate change would result in more extreme weather events, and here we are.

Merritt said he hoped seeing “climate change” on the patient’s chart would prompt other doctors who see it one day to make the connection between their patients’ health and climate change.

Extreme weather affects more than people’s physical health. Merritt says he saw a number of patients already suffering from depression or anxiety have their symptoms worsen during the wildfire season. Wildfire smoke even triggered flashbacks in a patient who was coping with post-traumatic stress disorder from his time as a soldier.

The World Health Organization calls climate change “the single biggest health threat facing humanity” and health professionals worldwide are responding. Doctors and nurses in western Canada held a climate rally at the B.C. Legislature organized by Doctors for Planetary Health—West Coast on November 4. The healthcare workers are calling on lawmakers to act in the face of the growing ecological threat to health and demanding that the provincial government declare a climate and ecological emergency.

Writing “climate change” on a patient’s chart may be unprecedented, but so are the times in which we live. If we are going to keep breaking records each year and keep seeing health-affecting extremes in temperature and weather events, we’re going to have to do unprecedented things. Doctors and nurses are on the front lines, seeing those health impacts firsthand.

Perhaps we should listen to them.

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Of Course A Fox News Event With Tucker Carlson Is Requiring Vaccinations Or A Negative COVID Test

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It’s been almost two years since the pandemic began in earnest, which means it’s been almost two years since Fox News has allowed its hosts to downplay, even spread dangerous misinformation about its severity. Arguably its biggest offender is Tucker Carlson, who has even told viewers to harass people wearing masks. Privately, of course, Fox News top brass (including honcho Rupert Murdoch) believes no such thing. On-site employees are required to either be vaccinated or be tested. And a big event involving Tucker of course requires the same thing.

As per Insider, the network is holding something this week called the Fox Nation Patriot Awards, held in Hollywood, Florida, in-person. It’s a who’s who of COVID misinformation spreaders, including Sean Hannity, Laura Ingraham, Dan Bongino, and, of course, Tucker himself. An invite, sent out by Fox & Friends co-host Pete Hegseth promised “book signings, photo opportunities, giveaways, and live show tapings.” Tickets are pricey, from $125 to $500 per person, and they will also raise funds for the veterans charity Building Homes for Heroes Foundation.

But eagle-eyed readers caught the fine print at the bottom of the invitation: “Attendees must show either a COVID vaccine card OR proof of a negative COVID test taken 72 hours prior to the event in order to gain entrance.”

Perhaps Tucker, who’s compared vaccine mandates to “Jim Crow,” will use a portion of his show to denounce this freedom-crushing event, which will feature him. Or, more likely, he’ll simply never mention it on-air, and if asked on some safe conservative podcast, he’ll do what he did the last time he was asked about his company’s vaccine mandates and duck the question, saying something, like, “I’m not qualified to speak for the company on this because I don’t run the company.”

Anyway, seems like getting a safe, effective, and free vaccine is a whole lot more of a hassle than trying to dodge COVID with some expensive and dodgy drug cocktail only someone like Joe Rogan or Dennis Prager can afford anyway.

(Via Insider)

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Adele helped facilitate an impossible-to-top surprise proposal at her concert

Last night, Adele’s first live concert in four years aired on CBS, and it was a night to remember for more reasons than that.

Held at the beautiful Griffith Observatory in Los Angeles, the concert was a star-studded event with gorgeous views of the city. Hearing and seeing Adele sing in a stunning black evening gown while the sun set behind her felt almost indulgent in its perfection, but the night was made even more special with a surprise proposal Adele helped orchestrate.

After Adele told the audience to be “really bloody quiet” and had the lights turned down, Quentin Brunson led his girlfriend, Ashleigh Mann, to the front of the stage. She was wearing noise-canceling headphones and a blindfold and had no idea where she was. When she took them off, she found Quentin down on one knee. She could see and hear the crowd, but it wasn’t until after Quentin went through his tearful proposal that Ashleigh found out where she was and who she was with.

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Can you even imagine? “What is happening? Where am I? OMG, I’m getting engaged! Oh, Adele—HELLO! What? I’m on you’re ‘One Night Only’ special that millions of people around the world are going to be watching on television? Take a seat in the front row, you say? Right here between Lizzo and Melissa McCarthy? UM, OKAY. Oh, you’re singing to me now. Am I dreaming?”

How does one even take in such an experience? It was all so beautiful and clever and surprisingly real. Ashleigh’s “Oh my god, I’ve been your girlfriend for so long” and her “In real life?” during the proposal and her simple, “Yeah” that sealed the deal were so dang cute. But her face when she saw Adele was absolutely priceless. And then Adele’s cackle—AH HA!

The performance of “To Make You Feel My Love,” just iced the cake. So, so sweet. We’re all wiping our eyes with you, Melissa McCarthy.

Quentin and Ashleigh were interviewed by Gayle King on CBS This Morning and shared how the proposal came to be:

Ashleigh said she thought they were going to go on a hayride because they had been talking about going to a pumpkin patch. Ha.

Quentin himself didn’t even know the surprise proposal opportunity was going to involve Adele herself until a couple of days before it happened. And the couple has had to keep the whole thing a secret since the filming—even from their friends and family—which had to have been torture.

What a fun and memorable night. Even people who aren’t fans of public proposals gave props to the surprise. Any proposal that involves Adele singing directly to you in person is pretty much impossible to criticize and impossible to top.

Congratulations to the happy couple!

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This ‘creepy’ guy wouldn’t stop staring at her at the gym. She knew exactly what to do next.

When lifting weights at the gym, the discomfort you feel should be coming from the workout. Not from other people with no concept of boundaries. However, this is an all-too-common occurrence for women.

Personal trainer Heidi Aragon (@fit_with_heidi) is used to sharing her fitness journey on social media. Her video, which has now garnered more than 8 million views on TikTok, didn’t go viral because of the workout. Instead, people are responding to how she confronted a man who not only wouldn’t stop staring at her, but denied the fact that he was. Until Heidi beat him at his own game.

Heidi explains in the text video “This creepy old guy at the gym kept coming over and staring at me.” Sure enough, the video shows a man in a green shirt, eyes undeniably fixated on Heidi. Uncomfortable, Heidi tries to get her husband to stand between her and the man, hopefully laying down a not-so-subtle cue to back off. But subtlety is clearly not this guy’s language.

So what does Heidi do? She stares back. The strategy seemed to work, at least for a while, but eventually Heidi had to go over and confront the guy directly.

Her video text read: “I told him if he’s going to work out in this corner he needed to stop staring and making me uncomfortable. His response was, ‘I’m just looking around.’ I then told him I record my workouts and I have him on film. He shut up real quick.”

@fit_with_heidi Don’t sit there and tell me you’re not doing something when I have proof. 😡 #gymtok #fittok #influencer #viral #trending #tiktok #fitness #gym #gymgirl #fyp #fypシ #foryou #foryoupage #gymcreeps ♬ Real As It Gets – Lil Baby

I know what you’re thinking: “Wait, didn’t we just hear a story about this?” Why yes, you’re right. Our very own Tod Perry covered another woman who had to deal with a guy at the gym who couldn’t take a hint.

Yes, almost back-to-back stories of women who have had enough from fellow male gym-goers. And still, there is victim blaming. In the video’s comment section, one user wrote, “Wear pants like that and expected something different??” How many videos have to go viral before we stop blaming a woman’s choice of clothing (which were really quite normal gym attire, by the way) for a man’s obviously intrusive behavior?

Others also seemed to assess that because Heidi was a fitness influencer, she more or less signed up for this kind of attention, invited or not. Which completely negates this woman having any choice in the matter. However, Heidi did post a tongue-in-cheek follow-up video thanking those who posted negative comments, as it gave her more followers and likes. So I guess there’s some small victory.

Though we may never have a consensus on proper gym etiquette, a good rule of thumb is keep to yourself. Getting the gumption to go workout is hard enough; don’t make staying there a hardship as well.

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John Mayer had a wonderful response to a Taylor Swift fan who wished him dead

Taylor Swift gave a tour de force performance on “Saturday Night Live” this weekend of a 10-minute version of “All Too Well,” which is believed to be about Jake Gyllenhaal.

The performance was to promote her new album “Red (Taylor’s Version)” which is a re-recording of her classic 2012 CD. Swift is in the process of re-recording every album she made before 2019 to reclaim the rights to her music. Her older recordings are owned by Shamrock Holdings, which gets paid whenever someone streams or buys the songs.

Swift hopes that fans will opt to listen to the new versions that she owns over the older ones.

For Swift’s loyal fans, known as Swifties, the “SNL” performance brought the Gyllenhaal break-up back to the forefront and some, sensing a trend, took the opportunity to address another ex, musician John Mayer.

Swift eviscerated Mayer on the song “Dear John” which appeared on her 2010 album “Red.” Here’s an excerpt of the lyrics:

My mother accused me of losing my mind,

But I swore I was fine, you paint me a blue sky

And go back and turn it to rain

And I lived in your chess game,

But you changed the rules every day

Wondering which version of you I might get on the phone

Tonight, well I stopped picking up, and this song is to let you know why

Dear John, I see it all now that you’re gone

Don’t you think I was too young to be messed with?

The girl in the dress, cried the whole way home, I should’ve known

One Swiftie, who goes by the name @hoeforlouaylor on TikTok, wrote an extremely mean message to Mayer on Instagram.

“Fuck yourself you ugly bitch I hope you choke on something,” @hoeforlouaylor wrote. She then demanded a response adding, “answer me you bitch.” To her surprise, the “Your Body Is a Wonderland” singer gave a very polite response.

Hi Alondrea, It’s John. I’ve been getting so many messages like this the past couple of days, I decided to choose your message at random to reply to. You can feel free to screen shot, share in any way you like if you want. I’m not upset, I just tend to have a curious mind and feel compelled to ask. Do you really hope that I die?

After Mayer responded, she posted an image of the conversation on TikTok.

The TikTok user sent a follow-up video where she said she apologized to Mayer. The video has since been set to private.

“My friend literally dared me to do that,” she said in the recording, according to The Daily Dot. “She’s a Taylor fan and like so am I. It was a dare. I’m sorry. I did not expect you to see.”

Mayer responded by showing that he’s a human being with feelings, too. “So it’s a fun thing people are doing without taking into account that I might see it and be affected by it?” he asked.

The TikTok user reiterated that she didn’t think he’d read the message. Then, in a wonderful display of grace, Mayer told the woman who wished him dead that it was fine by him.

“It’s 100 percent okay,” Mayer told her. “Go forth and live happy and healthy!”

Mayer did a great job in taking the high road with the Swiftie by explaining that even though he’s a famous musician, he’s just like everyone else. One of the worst things about internet culture is the idea that there aren’t any real people behind the profiles on social media.

If more people saw the humanity in those they are speaking with online it would go a long way toward softening our national discourse. Mayer did a nice job by pointing that out.

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Prosecutors In The Kyle Rittenhouse Trial Whipped Out A Still From The Movie ‘Road House’ For Some Reason

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For its first week, the Kyle Rittenhouse trial was unusually quiet. That in itself was odd, considering the Illinois teen is there because he shot three people, killing two, during a protest in Kenosha, Wisconsin. But in its second week things, uh, picked up. Rittenhouse himself took the stand and launched into what many found an unconvincing crying jag. The judge proved unhinged and even had a curious ringtone. A Fox News host, who runs their “comedy” show, said he “did the right thing.”

And now this: As per The Wrap, the prosecutors, during their closing statements, busted out a still from the movie Road House. You know: The about-to-be-remade 1989 action movie that’s also a semi-camp classic, in which Patrick Swayze plays an NYU philosophy grad student-turned-Deep South bar bouncer, who does roundhouse kicks and rips out people’s throats like it was nothin’. The image shows Swayze’s character is about to duke it out with one of the baddies in the midst of a large-scale bar fight at the Double Deuce.

What point was Kenosha County Assistant District Attorney Thomas Binge trying to make here? The caption read “The Defendant brought a gun to a fistfight.” Binge called what Rittenhouse did “reckless conduct,” adding, “What the defendant wants you to believe is that because he’s the one who brought the gun, he gets to kill.”

It seems Binge meant to argue that Rittenhouse escalated the situation by running around with a semiautomatic rifle. Had it just been akin to a bar fight, waged between fists, perhaps no one would have been shot. “That’s why he’s got to come up with this cockamamie theory that Joseph Rosenbaum was not only going to take the gun, but take it and then turn it on the defendant,” Binge added.

Then again, maybe you don’t bring a ridiculous movie in which a guy is crushed by a stuffed polar bear to a murder trial.

(Via The Wrap)

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Members Of Trump’s Cabinet Reportedly Discussed Using The 25th Amendment To Remove The Unhinged President From Office On Jan. 6th

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There’s yet another juicy tell-all about the capper to Donald Trump’s one-term presidency, namely Jonathan Karl’s Betrayal, and surprise surprise, there’s even more out-there nonsense that hadn’t yet been made public. The same day we learned Fox News Maria Bartiromo might be crazier than already suspected, we also heard that two of the highers-up in the Trump cabinet reportedly discussed yanking their boss out of office the night of Jan. 6.

As per Rolling Stone, the siege on the Capitol building — and Trump’s indifference to it — rattled more than just longtime loyalists like Mitch McConnell (who delivered a slurry rebuke of the man to whom he’d soon return). It also got to then-Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin and then-Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. And that night, the two reportedly discussed using the 25th Amendment to remove the unhinged president from power posthaste.

That ideas was “quickly jettisoned,” partly due to the resignations the next day of Education Secretary Betsy DeVos and Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao. They then realized it would be too tricky and time-consuming to formally chuck Trump.

“It would not be quick enough and it would be subject to legal challenges,” Karl said, explaining why the plan was abandoned. “But in the hours after the riot, there were high-level conversations about this.”

Pompeo later denied this happened, but Karl has stood by his reporting, which he called “rock solid.” But it’s clear, given the immediate reaction after the failed insurrection, that more than a few prominent Republicans were shaken by what happened — even if they eventually seemed to get over it.

Meanwhile, Karl has revealed, both in his book and during his press tour, some other genuinely shocking humdingers. How was it not better known that some “f*cking idiot” former body man was really running the show, that the rally that led to Herman Cain’s death was even more of a “s*itshow” than previously reported, or that Trump himself seemed to be cool with his supporters wanting to hang Mike Pence?

(Via Rolling Stone)

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‘Succession’ Star J. Smith-Cameron Revealed The Origin Of The Gerri-Roman Flirtation

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Over three seasons of Succession, J. Smith-Cameron’s Gerri has grown a lot. At first the quiet but highly competent special counsel of Waystar Royco, she’s now, in this season, the acting CEO of one of the world’s largest and hungriest corporations. (Though even she couldn’t save a truly chaotic shareholders meeting.) But one thing has stayed: She’s still in a weird semi-sexual relationship with Roman, the youngest male Roy scion, played by Kieran Culkin. It all started in Season 1, and according to a new New Yorker profile of Smith-Cameron, it kind of happened by accident.

The actress says she and Kieran were already friends by the time he made Succession. (They appear together, although not in the same scenes, in 2011’s Margaret, by her acclaimed playwright/filmmaker husband Ken Lonergan.) On set, during scenes together, they just “in a friendly way,” started “this sort of silly flirtation.” It began with them riffing with each other. Soon enough, they realized they had something.

“It was funny that Roman was flirting with Gerri, to us. Well, inappropriate and funny,” Smith-Cameron said. “So we just kept it up. At some point the writers became aware of it.”

The real genesis of it didn’t begin till Season 1, and it was all improv:

“Well, one day after we finished a scene they just kept the camera rolling, as they do, and we had to improv. I can’t remember what we said, but we had some kind of flirty repartee. And then apparently we both looked back over our shoulder at each other, without realizing. That was the end of Season 1. Then I guess in the writer’s room for Season 2 they wrote it into the story line.”

Then things escalated in Season 2:

We had to do that scene where I made Kieran go in the bathroom. You know the one. And I was really having trouble working it out, because it changes micro-beat by micro-beat. First, I’m just consoling him about Shiv, and then it shifts to being horrified about what he has in mind. And then I scold him, and then I see he’s turned on, and then I’m kind of being seductive, maybe. And then I’m, like, “Get in the bathroom!,” like a dominatrix, and then I’m laughing. It was like crossing an obstacle course.

I remember just sitting in my car, because it was street cleaning that day, and calling Michelle and saying, “I don’t know what Gerri thinks of this.” As much as I think Kieran is wildly attractive, I think Gerri would not give him the time of day. She’s so careful. And she’s known him as a little boy. I was very nonplussed about how to know what I felt, or what my character felt about this happening. And Michelle said, “Well, probably Gerri doesn’t know, either.” It was so obvious! Gerri is puzzled at first. And scandalized, intrigued, amused in turns. Tricky, but that is completely the truth of it. She was exactly right about that.

So there you have it. Gerri and Roman have a weird, still largely unconsummated relationship because two actors just sort of willed it into being, unsure where it was going, unsure if it even made sense. And it blossomed into one of the most distinctive parts of one of today’s most acclaimed shows. But Gerri would still mop the floor with Roman at basketball.

(Via The New Yorker)