i feel thit there's one more round of response and critique to the profile, which has to do with class. And i just don't know if jeremy strong is the best example of that. I think it's possible that people kind of heard this was a hit piece and then read it thinking everything was supposed to be a damning detail. But it's really in there to give him psychological dimension and sympathetic dimensions,. so that you understand him and can even root for him.
Michael Schulman is a staff writer for The New Yorker. He recently profiled Jeremy Strong of Succession.
”There's an interesting moment that's part of this job where you’ve spent a lot of time with someone and it often feels very personal and very intimate. And then when you go to write the piece, you have to sort of take a breath and say to yourself, Okay, I'm not writing this for this person. I'm writing this for the reader.”
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