So we assembled everyone who was in town — including my boyfriend, Gordon [Landenberger], who lives with me now but didn’t at the time — who was originally there. We were making plans, obviously using our voices, in a public space. And she really did the thing where she was like, “Oh, I left my purse here.” And she 100 percent did not enter with a purse. We do not know her.” And he handled it exactly like he does in the short. Today at Vulture Festival: Whoopi Goldberg, Samantha Bee, and Jerry Saltz, Kendrick Lamar Cuts First 2020 Verse on Busta Rhymes’s ‘Look Over Your Shoulder’. We were just like, “We’ll buy lots of nice wine and a cake and order food and just hang out.” Everybody did it as a favor. She would have had to drive because we all drove to my place. If there had been other strangers or we’d been high out of our minds. The creative team of Chernobyl. The short is full of our actual friends who are nonactors, and we tried to re-create it as accurately as we could. Choose an adventure below and discover your next favorite movie or TV show. Look very closely at the hair. She was born in 1960s, in the middle of Generation X, and in the Year of the Horse. And then she left out the front door, in real life. © Copyright 2020 Meredith Corporation. Do you have any theories on what she was doing there, in the year and a half since?Early: My one theory is that she maybe overheard us at the show. Tell me about the real Rachel.Early: One night, maybe a year and a half ago, I had a show in Silver Lake, and I had friends there, who’d brought their friends. I really am Rachel. Did you get your sweater back?Early: She didn’t really take my sweater. [Laughs.] Rachel Bloom Admits to Her Fifth-Grade Bully That She Was in Love With Him. I think she just wanted to party. What’s the best response you’ve gotten to the video?Berlant: Claire from Fleabag. Breaking that boundary — she’s not doing anything wildly incorrect, but it’s just strange enough that it calls her whole personhood into question. She is best known for her roles in such films as The Craft (1996), Nowhere (1997), and Half Baked (1998). She’s passing for somebody who’s belonging in that space. Early: A girl who was there and sitting on the floor was just like, “This is crazy,” and filmed it for two seconds. Do you think the real Rachel has seen the video?Berlant: Oh my God. Her father is of Ashkenazi Jewish descent, whereas her mother is of African American heritage. But I don’t think she was. Do you think Rachel was a superfan, or just wanted to party and you were having one?Early: The latter. What was behind her next-level bravado? Somebody who feels the entitlement to just walk into someone’s house, take off their shoes, and have some wine. Prime Video has your Halloween movie picks covered. It’s all there! She took off her shoes and talked to my friend Erin for like an hour — who Kate is actually talking to in the video. At one point, Erin looked over her shoulder at me and was like, “Do you know her?” And I exaggeratedly was like, “No!” And Erin thought I was joking, so she just kept talking to her. Sounds about white," she said on Twitter. It was just so rattling and terrifying. The subtext of her exit was like, “Y’all are nerds for not allowing me to stay here.”. Berlant: She and her wife gave us a tour and we hung out. People drove from that show to my place, and we sat on the front porch as people arrived, figuring out our evening’s food order. And it didn’t make sense to have a total stranger there. It’d be one thing if we were having a rager and it was just in the air, like, “Come one, come all!” But we were having a small gathering of friends. [3], Blood Lake: Attack of the Killer Lampreys, "Rochelle From The Craft Is a Tarot Card Reader in Echo Park", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Rachel_True&oldid=985429058, Wikipedia articles with WORLDCATID identifiers, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, This page was last edited on 25 October 2020, at 22:21. What I love about Kate is that it’s just kind of heartbreaking. Berlant: But that’s crazy. "Maybe it’s just an oversight but…I mean…it’s a film about four fucking girls—not three," she continues. On its own, the short is a freaky delight that raises more questions than it answers. Later, she moved to Los Angeles, and made appearances on Beverly Hills, 90210, Getting By, The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, and Dream On. What podcast was Rachel listening to in real life?Early: That’s another detail we added for the short. Rachel waltzes up to the party, cheerfully asks to use the bathroom, then attempts to ingratiate herself with Early’s friends, peppering them with intense questions about their livelihoods, joyfully drinking their wine (and spilling it on their artwork), plunging her hands into their cake, and eventually, blasting a podcast throughout Early’s apartment. "I’m not calling out anyone convention in particular because it’s more than one and they don’t realize the casual racism to the choice. It’s almost more brutal than it needed to be. The song also has a Jackson 5 sample, backing vocals by SZA, and a Chris Rock outro. Early: The crux of the short is that she’s not being actually dangerous, but she did need to leave. For More Stories Like This, Sign Up for Our Newsletter. Do you have anyone you think I’d like? Then she started doing something very troubling, which we show in the short. But then she’d have had to follow you. 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