“Kieran [Culkin] and I, in a friendly way, started this sort of silly flirtation,” J. Smith-Cameron says, about her “Succession” co-star. “It was funny that Roman was flirting with Gerri, to us. Well, inappropriate and funny. So we just kept it up.”
J. Smith-Cameron suggested that we meet for martinis at Bemelmans, the gilded piano bar at the Carlyle Hotel. I couldn’t have chosen better. The place, very old-school and very New York, seemed perfectly suited to Smith-Cameron, who has long been a fixture of the city’s theatre scene and who radiates effortless elegance. Smith-Cameron has lately gained an avid following for her role as Gerri Kellman, the interim C.E.O.
I didn’t watch much TV. I just read books. I lived mostly in South Carolina. I was born in Kentucky but we moved around the Southeast. We settled down in Greenville, South Carolina, for a long time. There weren’t VCRs and stuff like that yet. I have a big sister who I’m really close with, and she introduced me to cultural things a lot. She would introduce me to Broadway musicals—like, we put on the album, the LP, of “Oliver!” and would sing all the numbers.
They mean that people talk more than they usually do on camera. That’s one thing you really notice when you’re a theatre actor. Two or three sentences in a row seems like a wordy scene in a movie, but in a play you talk in paragraphs. It feels like literature. I don’t mean that to sound pretentious, but it’s more about the words. So I think “Succession” is a little bit of an anomaly for a TV show, because it’s streams of long sentences.
Does it feel strange to you at this stage in your career to have such a star turn? I see people responding to your every tweet with things like “Yes, queen!” Gerri is having a really interesting journey this season, and, I think, kind of an unexpected one. The fan-service way to do this season would be to have Gerri and Roman get together.
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