#Matthew Leifheit

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Matthew Leifheit, from the series To Die Alive

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 Matthew Leifheit | The New Yorker

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Charlie Puth | Interview | Matthew Leifheit | June 2023

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TOM GLYNN-CARNEY PHOTOGRAPHED BY MATTHEW LEIFHEIT FOR VULTURE MAGAZINE.

TALKING ABOUT HIS CHARACTER ARC IN S2.

Aegon is confident, politically savvy, and even affectionate with his children from sister-wife Helaena (Phia Saban).

“Showing that he has the potential to love was interesting to me. I wanted to investigate that.”

Glynn-Carney, who read the book after a season one conversation with Condal and Sapochnik about Aegon's overall arc, praises the development for its shock factor and the attention it gives to Saban, who says it is "sensational in all its forms."

There’s something about Aegon in his eyes when he admits: “I’d probably go a little more graphic about the gore. I could have done with, ‘Oh, I can’t look at that!’ The sadist in me needed it.”

TALKING ABOUT MUSIC.

The playlist he made for Aegon (he makes one for all his characters) helps get him in the right mercurial mind-set, he tells me at Rough Trade.

It includes some contemplative classical and punk rock like the Undertones, Stiff Little Fingers, and the Sex Pistols.

“Ironically,” he says with a smile. “fuck-the-patriarchy, fuck-the-monarchy stuff.”

In his own life, Glynn-Carney makes “lyrically driven, quite folky” music, citing Tame Impala, Bon Iver, and, of course, Garvey as influences.

He grabs a copy of Jeff Buckley’s Grace because he’s worn down his current edition from listening to it so much. He treats Chet Baker’s 1959 album Chet gently, like a holy object, when he tells me he’d love to play the cool jazz musician in a biopic one day.

“There she is,” he says, as if greeting an old friend, when he sees Patti Smith’s Radio Ethiopia.

“Anyone who says they don’t like music, you can’t trust them. Bodies under the floorboards, isn’t it?” he says.

OLIVIA COOKE TALKING ABOUT TOM GLYNN-CARNEY'S ACTING STYLE.

His acting style is instinctual, a function of his theater training that feels particularly well suited to Aegon’s own impulsiveness.

When filming their first scene on the show together, Glynn-Carney encouraged Cooke to actually slap him in the face:

“The first go, I did it really haphazardly. I only caught his chin with my fingertips, because I was too nervous. And he was like, ‘No, Olivia, just, like, really go for it. Just really go for it.’

“I went for it, and the ringing sound that came from the slap reverberated all through the Red Keep. Tears are springing to his eyes and his chin is wobbling.”

SPOILERS!! S2.

OLIVIA COOKE TALKING ABOUT A SCENE OF AEGON AND ALICENT IN S2.

In a scene they share in season two during which Aegon grieves the loss of a relative:

“He was throwing himself around the room in just the throes of despair. It sort of took me out of the scene a bit. I was like, Bloody hell, Tom’s doing well.”

ABOUT THE PERSONALITY OF KING AEGON II.

“massively bipolar.”

That emotional volatility, fueled by shame, guilt, and an obsessive need to prove himself, becomes a major driver of this season’s increasing bloodshed and brutality.

“Aegon wants to be loved and feared at the same time. But I think it’s a dangerous cycle.”

“We’re not going to get to the core of what’s going on. We’re just going to go round and round and round and round and round until everything burns and everyone’s dead."

ABOUT HIS SCENES WITH RHYS IFANS IN S2.

One of his favorite days on set this season reminded him of the live energy of performing onstage.

They were shooting episode two, when Aegon challenges his grandfather Otto’s decisions and remains steely and resolute in response to Otto’s insults:

“I’ve always wanted to do a play with Rhys, and that felt like the closest thing I’ll get to it for a while.”

“It was an empty set, a big room, like a stage. We were allowed complete free rein of the space.”

TALKING ABOUT HIS FAMILY.

He came from a creatively inclined family: His paternal grandparents were an opera singer and a choirmaster, and his mother sewed all the costumes for his sister’s ballroom and Latin dance competitions.

They were supportive of his acting dreams, he says, but urged a plan B — a suggestion he rejected:

“I remember being so precocious and being like, ‘If I have a plan B, I’m preemptively failing it.’ My mom probably thought, Little dickhead.”

“I always had my eyes on the prize, and sometimes you’ve just got to be like that, haven’t you?.”

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Jinkx Monsoon by Matthew Leifheit for Them

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Jinkx Monsoon by Matthew Leifheit for them magazine June 2024

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Sarah Paulson photographed by Matthew Leifheit for The New York Times.

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Tom Glynn-Carney photographed by Matthew Leifheit for New York Magazine!

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jinkx for them magazine, photographed by matthew leifheit 2024 🤍🩶🖤

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"But she hasn't required blood sacrifice..."

Jinkx Monsoon Is Ready for Her Close-Up (them.us) From Little Shop of Horrors to Doctor Who, the RuPaul’s Drag Race legend is now a booked and busy actress.

By Mathew Rodriguez

Photography by Matthew Leifheit June 4, 2024

Sporting a black dress, kitten heels, and a flapper-style fascinator adorning her signature copper coif, Jinkx Monsoon glides into her office: New York City’s Westside Theatre. She escorts me up the stairs toward the upstairs lobby, where audiences wait nightly to see her star as Audrey in the off-Broadway revival of Little Shop of Horrors. But today, the lobby is locked. Monsoon is unflappable, problem-solving with a Virgo’s acuity as she finds someone to unlatch the bolt. It’s not the first door she’s figured out how to open.

Few RuPaul’s Drag Race queens have successfully transitioned from reality TV star to working actor. Between her starring role on the Great White Way and her recent critically acclaimed turn in Doctor Who, it’s clear Monsoon has made the leap with panache....

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Matthew Leifheit from the series To Die Alive

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Fast becoming a Charlie Puth fan page. | Photographed and styled for Interview Magazine by Matthew Leifheit and Daniel Gaines, respectively.

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Matthew Leifheit, To Die Alive

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Matthew Leifheit