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I think I have Courtney Clearault fancast. Child actress Julia Butters.

Courtney is in this extremely weird place where she's too young to really hang out with Will, Jeremy, John, Darius etc etc but she's also too old to be besties with Riley, Maddie, Bobbie, etc. God, middle school age is the worst. (She's close to turning 11, which should translate roughly to her going off to 6th grade this fall.) I think it's smart for Mark to bring Courtney in because he can pull in "bridge" characters through her. By that I mean he can bring in characters that are the same age as Courtney. It will be useful to have that whenever Mark decides that he's finally had enough of the Elder Millennial characters (so Matt, Wade, Will, Jeremy, Travis, etc) but isn't ready yet to have Riley and Maddie be 15 years old. Always nice to see the Boston crew. I wonder what day school Wade insisted on Maddie and Riley attending. (They're turning 6, so they should be getting ready for grade school.)

I saw this, and laughed, because Mark writing so many characters as having green eyes makes fancasting a challenge. I basically just learned to ignore because whenever I do happen to find an actor with green eyes (like Asher Angel or Matt Cornett), Mark doesn't seem all that enthused. LOL

You can take the boy out of the mid-West, but not the mid-West out of the boy...

The Last Days of Disco was much more accessible which is how I got into the Whit Stillman oeuvre. Also, how adorable was Matt Keeslar? Shame he didn't take off. The guy balanced goofy nerd with hunk perfectly.

Yeah, glad you signed off on this one. I've been eyeing a new Wade fancast for years because the OG Wade fancast got really weird and tatted up. Lol

I haven't seen the show, but there's a clip circulating on Gay Twitter because his character is apparently being set up with Scott McCall from Teen Twink. I mean Wolf. I totally thought he gave off a Wade vibe. https://x.com/TBarbiePrint/status/2112575726016676134

I thought this was giving Wade. Long narrow face, chestnut brown hair, blue eyes, pretty yet adorably geeky, and very, very white-looking. (Just ignore the burnt sienna styling which probably wasn't even his idea.) Thoughts? The actor's name is Taylor Bloom. He's a theater kid who just got his big break with the new NBC t.v. series Line of Fire.

Huh, okay. I totally had her figured for a character of a Whit Stillman film. It looks like she's actually Jewish and her roots are in Long Island.

It totally makes sense now why Sarah, while being cool with Will, doesn't seem at all interested in being part of their crowd. (I still think Mark planted Sarah to be Travis and Will's eventual surrogate.)

I kind of thought that it was heavily implied Sarah was part of that group and had that kind of pedigree. She kind of seems to welcome Will and Marie and enjoy talking to them, but she also seems to maintain her distance as well. I would have assumed that the Schluters would have made their money during the post-Civil War industrial boom era of the late 19th century. Since you said that Claremont is based on Zanesville, Ohio, which is close to Columbus, we can assume they either made their money in carriage manufacturing, railroad transportation, steel, or a brewery. So you know, good ol' solid Midwestern stock vs. people who made their money an extra 200 years earlier. LOL

Ooh, you just summoned this YouTube skit I thought was funny. It's a dry satirical spoof on old money people. You know though, it's making me think. You really don't have Will or Jeremy interacting much with the East Coast Old Money crowd, do you? It makes me wonder if they're dismissed as trashy new money despite their ties to the Danfields, which probably isn't going to matter much in Boston or New York. Is it kind of an intentional thing where you don't think Old Money people would realistically want to interact with either Will or Jeremy or do you just find Old Money people boring, Mark? LOL

I thought it would be funny if Kendo gets sent to New Zealand and becomes a star on the soap Shortland Street. I figured you would know. Would you say your upbringing was more like Knots Landing, or Falcon Crest?

As an aside, I was watching this old 80's soap opera called Knots Landing on Tubi. I thought to myself, "Private Tim would probably know how much that neighborhood would cost now if it was real." Like seriously it must be astronomical. The actual house exteriors were filmed in a San Fernando suburb called Granada Hills and they used television magic to make it look like a coastal enclave. I figured if those houses were located on the coast as depicted on the opening, you'd be looking at some major coinage.

It's pinned in the fan club discussion board. I don't think I updated the character cheat sheet that you wrote up, didn't you?