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She runs away as soon as she finds out about it.
He cant understand why.
Then I also realized that Byron is almost the personification of toxic masculinity.
Every man that puts up a front like that is trying to fend off everything they fear.
Oh yeah.I think thats the basis for what our show is.
These people are trying their damndest to connect but not actually listening to each other.
You and Cristin Milioti both came up through New York Theater.
She was inOnceon Broadway around the same time you were inVanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike.
I would make her go on jogs with me.
I instantly knew I had a friend in her.
I would go over and bother her all the time!
But yeah, shes talented as hell.
I remember actually seeing her inOnceand bawling my eyes out.
In terms of exploring Byrons toxic masculinity, youve played a good number of similar characters in the past.
InManiac, for instance, our critic Jen Chaneydescribedyour part as a douche of many different colors.
Highlighting them and putting them out there is vulnerable, but its also the society we live in.
How do we address it if we dont talk about it?
We are all full of deep emotions and feelings and we hide a lot of them.
Im not gonna lie, it sucks constantly [hearing], Billy Magnussen plays douchebags so well.
But it seems likeManiacand then this happened …
I wouldnt say Kato Kaelin [inThe People v. O.J.
Simpson] was toxic masculinity in his own right.
I hate people who make it all about them, thats not my jam.
I cant choose what I get hired for, but I can choose what I can audition for.
I wish I was in a different … No, I dont wish, actually!
I really am happy, to tell you the truth.
Theres so many people out there who are so much better than me and not working.
Our society teaching men how to be.
Thats how I was raised.
Im trying to avoid that more and more.
Empathy and chivalry is not dead, and it doesnt need to be.
Dont throw in your opinion until its asked for.
I think as men were taught to act on something and move forward really fast.
Its the pause that Im working on.
Well, its the middle of a pandemic with so much stopped.
You were even in the James Bond filmNo Time to Die,which has been delayed through all this.
That was just beforeVanya.
Did you move to Georgia recently?In the past four months.
Youve got to see my garden!
Ive got tomatoes, cucumber, basil, rosemary, broccolini, peppers out the wazoo!
Im basically growing everything I need to make a Greek salad.
Hes a wonderful gentleman.
I think the goal with the project was finding the spirit of the character more than anything.
It was a wonderful project to be in.
Its a New York gangster staple!
OnMade for Love, Byron wears all these very intense tech-guy outfits.
Lots of turtlenecks and giant glasses and all-black everything.
Did you have much input on that?Gosh, some of those outfits were banging!
Our costume designer Jennifer Eve was wonderful, and she created all the outfits.
Everythings sleek and smooth and proper and together.
The glasses were my idea because I think of it as a protective layer.
you’re able to always hide behind it.
I want to know what that separation is that keeps him isolated from people.
Its a weird peacock flex mixed with a defense mechanism.
