#but also j smith cameron

[honeytrap-graham]

something about becoming a sex symbol at 70 is so heart warming and special to me

[vaperarmand]

compilation

[brotherconstant]

SUCCESSION 4.04 | Honeymoon States

ROMANGERRI ganging up on Greg

[cthaehart]

Gerri throughout the day Pt2🌲⛰

[jsmithcameronx]

J. Smith-Cameron and husband Kenneth Lonergan attend the 30th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards on February 24, 2024.

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idk who this interviewer guy is (mehdi hasan apparently!), but i really appreciate his little romangerri manifesto and jsc answering with the most delightful tone in her voice when she says “i don’t think so” about it being over. (it wasn’t over! it still isn’t over!) i transcribed the clip just for fun!

Do you think that Roman and Gerri's story is over at that point? We can only imagine, I guess. JSC: I don't think so. I feel like, well, I don't know what's in Jesse and the other writers' minds, but I feel like the fact that even just so little bit [sic] of the narrative of their relationship is referenced in the very end ... but the fact that we're looking at each other and it's hard for us is proof that there's ... there's still some kind of attachment there. I mean, I've always thought that, you know, what Gerri wanted was a business relationship with him, but in the course of events I think, you know, he got under her skin. She got really attached to him, and she's not used to being attached to people and she probably didn't recognize what she was feeling. So I think she's, you know, not a sentimental person, but finding herself still feeling worried for him and, uh, empathy for him. I mean, Succession's kind of this cold, chilly, objective world where there really isn't empathy. It's like it doesn't really exist in the little pretend universe of it. But I feel like whatever version of it that there could be, that she's feeling that for him.

[gerrik1llman]

rewatching connor’s wedding for the millionth time (i am unwell, yes) and roman firing gerri is just always such a fucking scene oh my god!!

like first of all, how quickly it all unravels the moment he actually speaks to her, because as he says, he goes weird with her and!!! this time it is reasonable! because they haven’t spoken in, what? 4 months? and they left off in such a fucked up state and never talked about the dickpics or the betrayal or anything, and now he’s supposed to just fire her? at connor’s wedding? like the levels of absurdity are unprecedented.

then the actual conversation is so well constructed, because roman tries so hard not to look at her since he knows she has fucking superpowers and can read him like he’s a shampoo bottle and she’s bored on the toilet, but she doesn’t let him off the hook either, because she does have superpowers and knows he can’t hide from her, and yeah, she also hasn’t gotten to talk with him since italy and maybe she expected this conversation to go differently, and maybe she had prepared herself for, i don’t know, anything else than this.

and as soon as he gets it out of himself, that she’s done and dead and goodbye, her face just shifts (the fucking acting here oh my god) and it just becomes so fucking clear that this hurts her so much, and there’s nothing she can do. like it’s insane. he tells her she can go legal but they’ll silence her with money, and maybe i’m a bit too familiar now with J’s many expressions when she’s Feeling Things and Acting Them Out (turns out she cries a lot in her roles), but she’s very good at the whole ”look like you’re just about to cry, but are being so very brave about it” and it’s absolutely conveyed in this scene as well.

roman is so helpless too, because she’s emotionally stronger and more intelligent than him and he’s made her go quiet and deadly, but also you can see it in her eyes that she’s not OK but she’s handling it, and i’m sure his balls burrowed themselves right up in his fucking chest because four (4) months (!!!) of not talking to each other, and when they do he fires her and makes her put her fucking guard up and it’s so unfair, because yeah, he chose logan and fucking chose to do this to her but it’s like it doesn’t even register to him until after it’s done and he realizes that yeah, he just broke something so unbelievably badly between them and there’s no way to fix it but if only he’d held off until tom would call him again and their day would get just so much worse, but then they could’ve had an actual conversation, after, and maybe even resolved some shit and this might have all been just a bit better, in the end.

[waystarresourceco]

J. Smith Cameron on Gerri’s relationship with her daughters (and a little look into the collaborative process between Jesse and the actors).

“I ventured to Jesse one time and I was like ‘I wonder if maybe she has two grown daughters. Gerri has two daughters. We don’t need to know about them but in her backstory she’s got two daughters. And it’s not like they have an estranged relationship exactly but they’re a little scared of her. Like they’re respectful, they value her opinion, they have her on a pedestal but she’s not a cozy up to mom.’ And Jesse was like ‘Huh, that’s interesting I’ve always – now that you mention it I always imagined her childless. I don’t know, let’s just stick a pin it and let’s not commit to it.’  

Then much later when we were doing the senate hearing, at one point I had to improvise some of my answers. So I did some improvs and at one point the democrat senator asked Gerri, ‘Do you have any children?’ and I said ‘Oh I have two daughters.’ It just came out of my mouth. . . . I remember Jesse coming up after they said ‘Cut’ and laughing and saying ‘Oh you got your daughters in there!’”

Excerpt from Can't Stop Watching - June 4, 2020

Bonus audio under the cut where J. discusses her daughters names as discovered via her prop phone (gotta love the prop department's commitment).

Transcript provided by the source (x):

J. Smith-Cameron: [O]ne time I saw my-- I've said this before in some interviews, but I don't know if you've come across this, Nicole, but the props department in our show was out of this world. One time I was playing with my prop phone, Gerri's prop phone, and it had a completely full contacts. It had something like Catherine Kellman and Petty Kellman. Petty was short for something else.

Nicole: Catherine and who?

J. Smith-Cameron: Petty like Petulia or something.

Alison Stewart: Oh, okay.

J. Smith-Cameron: Yes, like Petty Fors, like that Petty, and I don't know what that was short for. I assume those were the daughters, but that, I think that was Tony Roche, one of our writers, but my god, the detail. I had them cast in my mind. I thought it should be Halley Feiffer and Tavi Gevinson playing the two daughters[.]

[kvtnisseverdeen]

"Succession Sweep" at the 81st Golden Globe Awards | Jan 07, 2024

[melrosing]

went to see a play and both tom wambsgans and gerri kellman were there 👀

[actualhumancryptid]

J!! J!! J Smith-Cameron sighting!!!

[vaperarmand]

Seth meyers interviewing j smith-cameron: rpf is fine

no it's true he actually said that

[brotherconstant]

SUCCESSION (2018-)

This Is Not For Tears (2.10) Mass In Time Of War (3.02)

[kenzie-ann27]

😭

[jsmithcameronx]

J. Smith-Cameron attends the press night after party for "Juno And The Paycock" at Browns Covent Garden on October 03, 2024 in London, England.

[dollsome-does-tumblr]

i'm always so fascinated when you can see characters literally shaking from emotion on tv

like, damn!!!! that's acting with your whole body to a profound degree!!!!! you are really living it!!!!!