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Successionsfans are extremely online, but none are more fanatical than the Gerri hive.
Will someone hey get this woman some chocolate cake?
My god,writes one.Nigella Lawsons chocolate fudge cake is the way to go,advises another.
Imustget this woman a piece of cake.
I offer as soon as we sit down, but Smith-Cameron insists shes already curbed her craving.
I dont take any of this for granted at all.
Every day, I think to myself,This is just delightful.
People of all types want to get together with Gerri.
Despite her newfound online fame, the Kentucky native flies under the radar in real life.
She arrives 10 minutes early to our dinner, navigating the West Village with the authority of a local.
All the film and TV things I got sort of by accident, she explains.
Scott Rudinwould produce these big cast comedies, and he really loved New York actors.
So he would offer to bring us in for that.
[Actors like] Nathan Lane, Dana Ivey, Victor Garber, [and myself].
Her role onSuccessionemerged in a similarly serendipitous fashion.
I wasnt auditioning much because my mother was very ill, actually on her deathbed, she says.
I was like, Listen.
I would love to do the part, but Im not coming back right away.
I really thought that was it, she says.
But then they somehow picked me up.
I was really worried.
She neednt have been; their lust for one another is now a central part of the shows appeal.
That they would have fun cloak-and-dagger power plots, she says.
I mean, they could break up in the first episode or get married in the first episode.
What a sensation, Smith-Cameron says of the latter.
Do you think that because he seems so aimless, they think he doesnt have offers or something?
Like, that hes available?
I explain that Ive seen 50 girls throw themselves at him during a recent event.
Hes very, very appealing, she says slowly.
But people probably said that about Smith-Cameron too.
In this context, her newfound objectification is surely a win, and maybe even an ego stroke?
Ill tell you what, she says, taking another sip of rose.It amuses me.
And isnt that enough?
Photographer:Olivia Joan
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