Nicholas Braun is No One’s Fool

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Nicholas Braun talks bad romances, dating rituals, and his very misunderstood ZOLA character

There is a scene that didn’t make it into Zola, Janicza Bravo’s film based on the tweet thread widely known as the “greatest stripper saga ever told.” It went something like this: A sallow young man, maybe in a stained polo and a backward baseball cap, is playing a computer game at home. Nearby, his girlfriend plays with her baby. The child isn’t his, but that detail doesn’t matter much; here, they’re just a couple living together and raising a kid.

Braun has a tendency to see the best in his characters — it’s not helpful to “put negative connotations” on any of them, he explains. He calls from New York, where he’s filming the third season of Succession, and is gently indignant over my description of Cousin Greg as a dummy, another character he saw as having potential from the jump. He’s wearing clear-frame glasses with a silver chain glinting on his neck, and blueish stubble shades his chin.

I wonder if this is bullshit. He’s a well-known actor who famously dates normies. Plus, he’s six-foot-seven. Is he really out here waiting for a text back? He shakes his head, eyes growing wide and, impossibly, even more earnest. After swallowing a few times, he begins to speak, haltingly, about a bad date in his 20s. The story is familiar: The date went great, you really like the person and think they really like you, but you never hear from them again.

It absolutely works: Derrek looks like shit and, in particular, looks like he smells like shit. “He’s all b.o. It’s a 30-hour road trip, and he doesn’t change his outfit once.”

 

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