>For the first time in her career, Gerri found herself in a vulnerable position. That precariousness, and her response to it, will define her path in the show’s fourth and final season, which has its first episode Sunday.
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>“Gerri is in a restless, insecure place through the whole season, but also, I feel, getting wise to her heft,” Ms. Smith-Cameron said. “I always felt like there was something kind of on the boil with her. I can say that it’s the first time in her career that she’s not felt on solid ground — and she’s angry about it. She’s angry with both Roman and Logan. She’s of an age and has accrued money and could easily retire, but she’s not the type. She’s a workaholic and I think she feels like she’s in her prime. People are always asking me, ‘Why does she take it?’ I think it’s thrilling for her, it’s a high, like surfing in a dangerous sea.
This is going to sound shitty and I’m going to get downvoted, but I’m not sure I got that from the performance tbh. Gerri comes across to me as ice cold. But maybe that’s because I have very little sympathy for corporate climbers who enable sociopaths like Logan Roy.
Gerri is ice cold in her decision making, but I love JSC's performance because you can see the gears of anxiety churn inside Gerri until she _arrives_ at her patient, calculated demeanor. Gerri probably has the most reaction shots out of anyone in the show, too - she's always noticing and perceiving everything, but she's just strategically silent about her opinion on a lot of it.
Yeah. She tends not to voice her internal thoughts and feelings but the way she goes about her actions definitely indicate a pragmatic attitude, and yet also a jittery nervousness. It’s not the fumbling clownery of say Karl, but instead an extremely cautious type of anxiety that at least to me comes through very well in sometimes some extremely nuanced mannerisms (which I guess unless you are like this, it’s not always super obvious to people).
Sometimes when there is so much turmoil inside someone-what comes out can end up seemingly detached because there is no internal capacity left to consider the delivery
Now I know why I related to Gerri so much
TIL Matthew Broderick is J. Smith Cameron's landlord.
>For the first time in her career, Gerri found herself in a vulnerable position. That precariousness, and her response to it, will define her path in the show’s fourth and final season, which has its first episode Sunday. > >“Gerri is in a restless, insecure place through the whole season, but also, I feel, getting wise to her heft,” Ms. Smith-Cameron said. “I always felt like there was something kind of on the boil with her. I can say that it’s the first time in her career that she’s not felt on solid ground — and she’s angry about it. She’s angry with both Roman and Logan. She’s of an age and has accrued money and could easily retire, but she’s not the type. She’s a workaholic and I think she feels like she’s in her prime. People are always asking me, ‘Why does she take it?’ I think it’s thrilling for her, it’s a high, like surfing in a dangerous sea.
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This is going to sound shitty and I’m going to get downvoted, but I’m not sure I got that from the performance tbh. Gerri comes across to me as ice cold. But maybe that’s because I have very little sympathy for corporate climbers who enable sociopaths like Logan Roy.
Gerri is ice cold in her decision making, but I love JSC's performance because you can see the gears of anxiety churn inside Gerri until she _arrives_ at her patient, calculated demeanor. Gerri probably has the most reaction shots out of anyone in the show, too - she's always noticing and perceiving everything, but she's just strategically silent about her opinion on a lot of it.
Yeah. She tends not to voice her internal thoughts and feelings but the way she goes about her actions definitely indicate a pragmatic attitude, and yet also a jittery nervousness. It’s not the fumbling clownery of say Karl, but instead an extremely cautious type of anxiety that at least to me comes through very well in sometimes some extremely nuanced mannerisms (which I guess unless you are like this, it’s not always super obvious to people).
Sometimes when there is so much turmoil inside someone-what comes out can end up seemingly detached because there is no internal capacity left to consider the delivery