“We really wanted to get to what would it be like for Carmy to actually try to experience some form of happiness in his life,” he said. On “Ramy,” Storer had found Gordon inherently lovable. Carmy has armored himself against feeling, but opposite Gordon’s Claire that armor is useless. “She sees right through, in a really beautiful way, to the core of Carmy,” White said by phone. For Gordon, the scenes opposite Carmy — the sweet, morning-after ones, the anguished ones — felt uniquely personal, mirroring her experiences with past partners.

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