Middlebrow 1 July 2026

Acting Easy

with Jeremy O. Harris


  1. 3:38

    Apocalypse Now Francis Ford Coppola, 1979

    Invoked as the casting ceiling for extras, joked about who gets hired for war reenactments. Jeremy O. Harris

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  2. 4:07

    Selling Sunset Adam DiVello, 2019

    Grasped at while trying to remember which reality franchise gave Persians their representation.

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  3. 10:23

    Inferno Dan Brown, 2013

    Defended, seriously, as the best book he ever read: pure ride, indelible prose. Jeremy O. Harris

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  4. 16:39

    Shiva Baby Emma Seligman, 2020

    Cited as Dianna Agron's credential in the same Jewish casting argument.

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  5. 19:36

    Frasier Peter Casey & David Angell & David Lee, 1993

    Harris crowns the hosts the Frasiers of podcasting, then makes them divide up the brothers. Jeremy O. Harris

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  6. 26:07

    Mad Men Matthew Weiner, 2007

    The Don Draper brushoff, deployed against a man he beat at love on Fire Island.

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  7. 30:40

    A Raisin in the Sun Lorraine Hansberry, 1959

    The furthest young people get, he suspects, into Black letters. Jeremy O. Harris

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  8. 44:23

    Succession Jesse Armstrong, 2018

    One half of the pitch for his shelved show about a chair and three generations. Jeremy O. Harris

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  9. 55:45

    Death of a Salesman Arthur Miller, 1949

    Its worst seat, at three hundred dollars, stands in for everything wrong with Broadway.

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  10. 58:40

    Eraserhead David Lynch, 1977

    Lynch held up as the filmmaker who took care of the people holding the lights. Jeremy O. Harris

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  11. 59:19

    Euphoria Sam Levinson, 2019

    Its shutdown crew is the reason the profit sharing story that follows matters. Jeremy O. Harris

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  12. 59:25

    Malcolm & Marie Sam Levinson, 2021

    Everyone on the crew got points, and some of them bought houses. Jeremy O. Harris

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  13. 1:02:37

    Crystal Fairy & the Magical Cactus Sebastián Silva, 2013

    The comparison point: friends making a movie in a friend's apartment, and the vibe holding.

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  14. 1:10:33

    Theatre of the Oppressed Augusto Boal, 1974

    Boal's poor theatre for everyone, which Harris decides was really the Knicks winning in five. Jeremy O. Harris

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