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The business hasn't changed. You know, the economics haven't changed. The thing that's changed for me is that I was on the White Lotus and now I can be in a Broadway play. That wasn't true for me five years ago. The economics of theater have changed because we live in a country that is fundamentally unsupportive of the arts. You know, governmentally, there's no federal support for the arts. So now in order to do a play on Broadway, you have to do the White Lotus or else you're not allowed. They have to replace you with somebody more famous.

(If you hadn't done White Lotus and Gilded Age and hadn't sort of blown up as a "star"—)

We wouldn't be sitting here. Absolutely not.

(Your acting ability, what you do on stage, not enough?)

No, that's not how we make those decisions anymore. And you can ask all these extraordinary theater actors who don't do plays anymore because celebrities are doing plays. It's just a different world that we're living in now.

I would say August Osage County that production would not come to Broadway now. Nobody would take a risk economically on that move with a bunch of Chicago actors, a bunch of unknown actors in a company. I don't think the play would move now. I don't think anybody would pony up to do it.

(And Tracy wouldn't have a Pulitzer.)

That's right. And I wouldn't have married him. I'm just kidding. That's probably not true.

(It's a really sad thing you're saying.)

I think part of what is making young people lonelier, in discussing why they're increasingly isolated, is that they're so afraid of meeting someone who doesn't hold their same beliefs, and instead of being just core beliefs it is kinda ancillary shit.

It's actually okay to disagree even on social topics! Even on some political ones! But I mean, online you can start with "i love this mutual but they have a really bad/uninformed opinion about x media"

I know this is IMMEDIATELY going to be taken in bad faith, and yes babygirl, you are so right, I DO want you to go make best friends with both the KKK grand wizard AND your nearest nazi leader.

But seriously, as someone who has spent two decades doing community organization: finding ways to connect with different people is so so so important. There are people i follow here who ate 80% smart and their brain falls out of their head 20% of the time and that is GOOD FOR MY MENTAL ECOSYSTEM AND GOOD FOR LEARNING HOW TO BE A PERSON

>have to work a 4am-12pm shift at work to help get a new store in your company open

>acknowledge that there was no way you were getting to bed where'd you'd get enough sleep

>for some insane reason instead to shoot for getting No Sleep instead of Not Enough Sleep

>youre 30 years old. you haven't pulled an all nighter since your early 20s outside of the time covid gave you insomnia and you were awake for three days straight

>the day before you watched the classic Eminem as a 2nd Century Warlord video on repeat

>get to your 4am shift

>youre already exhausted. you got a coffee en route to try and help. you never drink caffeine, and as it always does, it combines with your Mental Illnesses to make you feel truly insane

>time passes miserably slow as you spend 6 hours doing constant manual labor as you and a bunch of people are running all over lifting and putting down boxes full of merchandise all over

>entire time your brain as if in some desperate need to find something to attach to in order to ignore the State you are in repeatedly goes "first day as a second century warlord-" at random intervals

>you're so tired. you're in Pain. you've been awake for 24 hours at this point. you've seen the sunset, the night run its course, and then the sun rise once more. you've been on your feet without the chance to sit down for 6 hours now

>start coming up with your own 2nd century warlord stuff. 17th day as 2nd century warlord you're too nervous before the day of an early morning battle so you decide to stay up all night only realizing it was a bad idea when you arrive at the battle with your men and you're too tired to properly direct your troops

>last two hours of your shift hits and you blessedly now just get to spend the rest of your time opening up & putting out t shirts

>pop earbuds in and listen to music during this final stretch to try to ignore how tired and In Pain you are

>look down at your phone. 20 minutes left. nearly 8 hours of torment almost over. you're so tired. your legs and arms and back and hips and feet hurt so much. you've spent the last hour getting by envisioning the nap you're going to take when you get home

>pause your music to answer a question from another person working

>realize some of the other people there have a speaker on with music of their own playing