Enjoy Gallery of Hollywood-loving Actor Josh Segarra – The unabashedly Hollywood-loving actor returns for season three of industry-roasting show The Other Two.
We’ve found this article on Hollywood Report about Josh Segarra could be Hollywood’s biggest fan. The actor, who has been working steadily for the past 15 years — first with day gigs like a scene in the Homeland pilot shortly after his graduation from NYU, later with recurring roles on Chicago P.D. and Orange Is the New Black — is effusive, bordering on glowing, about the business. He remembers details about every guest spot he’s ever done, every executive or star who’s helped him to where he is today. Claire Danes was “so sweet and kind” and did crossword puzzles on set; John Leguizamo was “awesome”; Kevin Bacon offered some banter about the New York Giants to calm some nerves. “It hasn’t been lost on me when somebody can tell I’ve got stars in my eyes and takes the time to give me a hug,” he says. “It’s why I’ll never stop being a fan of this business.”
JOSH SEGARRA Paramount’s “Scream VI” World Premiere in March 6.
It’s hard to pinpoint Segarra’s breakout role, and it’s likely most of his fans would offer differing answers. He did a season-long arc on Arrow and starred on Marvel’s She-Hulk: Attorney at Law, two franchises that offered the actor, who was not a comic book devotee beforehand, an education in dedicated viewership. “Once I booked those roles, I immediately started getting texts from people in my life saying, ‘Welcome to the party, but don’t mess this up,’ ” he recalls with a laugh.
This year, he’s been seen in Scream VI and The Big Door Prize, the Chris O’Dowd-starring Apple TV+ dramedy. But it’s The Other Two that he’s here, mostly, to talk about. The HBO Max comedy from former SNL writers Chris Kelly and Sarah Schneider centers on a Justin Bieber-like YouTube star turned mega-celebrity named Chase Dreams, whose momager (Molly Shannon) becomes famous in her own right.
Segarra, 36, plays Lance, a fashion designer dating Chase’s older sister and manager, Brooke (Heléne Yorke). He serves as the goofy antidote — he thinks it’s still cool to dab — to the show’s blistering roasts of celebrity-worship culture. Segarra is more suave than his onscreen counterpart, but they share the same good nature, especially when it comes to the source material. “I’m a Belieber. I saw [2011 concert film] Never Say Never in theaters,” he says. He isn’t sure Bieber has seen the show (“He’s got to at least know Molly Shannon”), but he welcomes the chance to open that door. “I’d definitely tell him he has to watch our little comedy,” he says. “I think he would appreciate what we have to say [about fame].”
“It’s a testament to the creators’ genius that they know exactly where the line is,” says Josh Segarra of the barbed humor of The Other Two. “But if only you could see our text messages when we get the scripts. I love watching them find humor in a place where other people haven’t yet.”
Josh Segarra
On the third season that premieres May 4, Lance finds a new calling as a nurse, having given up fashion in order to “make a difference” after the pandemic, much to Brooke’s annoyance. She too starts a spite-search for a new career “doing good” outside of the industry; in typical Other Two absurdist fashion, she becomes (literally) invisible to agents, managers and stars now that she’s a normie.
And despite the razor’s edge of the jokes, Segarra believes it’s all rooted in (what else?) a deep fandom. “Our business can get a haze on top of it, and sometimes you’ve got to wipe it down clean to see the heart inside of it,” he says. “That’s what the show does.”
Article written by Seija Rankin
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