Issa Rae plays a rich socialite who went to school with Ivanka Trump and now has to reassess their relationship
and serves as their response to “the national nervous breakdown that everyone on every side of the political divide is experiencing,” Rudnick said in a recent interview. The monologues were originally envisioned as a stage piece, perhaps to be directed by Roach at the Public Theater in New York. But the pandemic dashed that dream, reorienting the project as a filmed-at-home series of monologues.
Rae’s character is, perhaps, the closest archetype resembling the cheeky title of the monologue series. She plays Callie, the rich socialite daughter of an extraordinarily wealthy man, who just so happened to go to school withcreator reflects on her relationship with the elder Trump daughter and assesses her approach to seeing Ivanka again after her father accepts an invitation from Trump to visit the White House.
Levy’s monologue is a bit off the beaten path. In it, he plays an actor in the midst of uncomfortable, potentially degrading auditions to play the first gay superhero in a major comic book movie. His monologue is less about the pandemic and more about the politics of Hollywood, and what it means to be a gay actor toiling in such high-profile terrain.
“It’s painful because I love my family, and yet I do have strong opinions and I’m very passionate. I know it doesn’t take much to get me going—and it doesn’t take much to get them going,” the director said. “That there is Sarah’s predicament.”
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