“I remember wanting to be in ‘Smallville’ more than anything,” recalls Lizzy Caplan. “I could have ended up living in Vancouver for 10 years and potentially would have been the number two of the NXIVM cult.”
from her 2019 novel of the same name, the FX on Hulu limited series initially centers on nebbishy Manhattan surgeon Toby Fleishman and his imploding marriage to mega-agent Rachel Fleishman . Caplan plays Toby’s old college friend Libby Epstein, a former magazine journalist now floundering in suburban stay-at-home-mom exile. Ever so gradually, it becomes clear that though someone else’s name is in the title, Libby is closer to the center of the story than she or the viewer first realizes.
“In early conversations, Taffy wanted to reassure me that there was a payoff for Libby,” Caplan recalls, chatting withby video from her Los Angeles home, where her infant son’s howls occasionally can be heard from the other room. She needed no reassurance about the role. Having so much experience with spicing up secondary characters, Caplan knew how to wring substance out of a brainy, marginalized figure like Libby.
“In many ways, I identified with Libby more than I’ve identified with any other character I’ve played,” Caplan says. “It’s like the East Coast version of my West Coast Jewish upbringing.” She laughs when I point out that she’s one of the rare celebrities whose Wikipedia page makes note of their Bat Mitzvah and Jewish summer camp pedigree—her ancestors would be kvelling!startled her.
Another element that connected with Caplan is her character’s growing understanding of how misogyny shaped her career. Magazine journalist Libby believed herself to beand expected to be judged on merit—but the “guys” always saw her as an outsider. “The one of the guys thing…ICaplan’s career fate was sealed at the age of 15, after she took an acting class at her Los Angeles performing arts-focused high school and caught the bug.
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