We had such a strangely specific, similar way that we work, and a similar background. I don’t know how to explain this. We were just really regular middle-class, suburban kids that were never supposed to become famous actors. My interpretation is that the whole time, he was, like, What the hell is going on? I remember, when we got picked up for the second season, he said to me, “Yeah, well, I just have no idea what the hell we did, but we’ve got to try to do it again.” And I said, “I hear you. I don’t know. We’ll figure something out.” He was totally un-actor-y, and was incredibly self-deprecating, and he was a real soul mate in that regard. We did not spend a lot of time talking about the scripts. It was like when you see two kids playing in the sandbox, completely immersed in their imaginary world. That’s what it felt like acting opposite Jim.
Sara Paxton being glued into her mermaid tail for her part in Aquamarine. The process takes two hours, and in combination with hair and make-up, four hours. The tail design was inspired by low riding jeans that were popular at the time of filming, the 2000s.
The Sopranos (1999 - 2007): What’s doubly sad about this is that a major contributing factor is that every time Chris tries to better himself, or tries to prove his loyalty to Tony, he gets mired more deeply in the situation, unable to escape from the man who increasingly views everybody in his circle as his subject… (Fittingly, in a late-episode moment, Chris sees Tony laughing in slow-motion, wreathed by cigar smoke. He looks like the devil.) (x)
Succession (2018- ): I think at base they do [love each other]…I think also the fact that she knows that Tom loves her, makes her feel that she loves him. It’s kind of like the chicken and the egg. I think there’s very much, for Shiv, a difficulty understanding love that’s not transactional. (x)
With billions of dollars, the Roys ought to be able to sleep well… And yet their lives have long been one big fever dream, vivid but disturbing, outwardly blissful but inwardly tortured. And Tom…may finally be waking up, utterly spent, from it all. (x)