Shrill’s Love Interest Believes in Queer-Strength Supremacy

Illustration: Magdalena Wosinka When I meet E.R. Fightmaster over a video call, we’re both coping with springtime growing pains. The comedian, writer, and actor warns me of ambient noise as they smile broadly, all white teeth and lean jawbone, very “genderless Gap ad,” to quote their various social-media handles. We get silent to hear the perpetual whirring in the background, the collective sound of heavy-duty gardening.

Fightmaster emphasizes the deep gratification they feel about playing a swooning, classic love interest on the show. If you’re not familiar, any crush of Fran’s would need to be hilarious, sharp, and very good at the lost art of hanging. Fightmaster’s character’s proclamation of affection at the end of season two was as charming as crush proclamations come. “And I’m so truly gay in real life that,” Fightmaster laughs, “I know that our relationship in the series comes off as authentically queer.

In rigorous history-buff fashion, Fightmaster reads by theme or time period. “I’m a Gemini and, once again, a toxic person, and I really can get excited about anything,” they explain, “for no reason at all, I will just go off about all the things I know.” Right now, they’re wading deep in 1920s Florida history and they hold up books like a flamboyant professor in office hours.

Photo: Magdalena Wosinka So Fightmaster has been training their friends since July and also frightening these same friends with their own vindictive tennis ambitions. They try to reel it in on the court, but they say that holding back only works for so long with them. “It’s me playing really tame for a few points, and then hitting an overhead shot so hard it hurts someone’s feelings.” I admire tennis for seeming wholesome and buttoned-up, when it’s actually really bitchy.

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