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what it’s like coming of age as a young person, what it’s like coming of age as a young woman, and some of those initial lessons you have to learn.”
A big part of depicting the story accurately, of course, was nailing the Kevin character, and according to Wilde, Gamble’s channeling of the real-life “recruiter” upon whom he’s based was downright eerie—to the point that Gamble with no prompting fashioned a goatee on his chin that mirrored the real guy’s look precisely.
“His instincts were just so on point with this character, and with this vibe and just the whole aura of the person that he was portraying,” Wilde marveled. “I genuinely think that he must have met this guy in another lifetime or something, or met someone so similar—and that’s really a testament to how many fucked up people there are out there and surrounding our industry just like this person that I knew—but he just was so on point as far as the wardrobe choices, obviously the facial hair, the way he talked.
“Certain random things that he would say in improv, I would just really look back and be like, wow, I have no idea how he came up with that, but it feels very fitting.”
For Gamble, who granted was almost a foregone choice for the role, insofar as being the star contract player for Adult Time parent company Gamma Entertainment, he chalked up his summoning of the character to his own encounters with carbon copy types throughout his life.