![]() Nobody ever tells us really how to be men or husbands or fathers. I didn’t know we were going this deep this early! I was always trying to get my dad to talk to me, and respond to me, and he was just of a generation where it was, I guess, difficult for him to do so. I can chalk it up to the fact that so many of us dads came up a little short somewhere along the line, so people have this deficit need for affirmation. I guess I was struck at the outpouring of response over the years, not only when the show was on, but ever since. I just love - there’s a bunch of characters I’ve played over the years and that’s one of my favorites. No, I don’t feel like I’m the world’s anything. You know, whenever! Whenever somebody gets excited about seeing Sandy, I just want them to know that the way they felt about him was warranted. She lets them run with the idea - until she falls in love with his mumblecore, furniture-maker brother (Bill Pullman) instead.Īs a longtime fan of Gallagher, the sort who has committed season one of The OC to memory and finds him attractive even as he sleeps with his wife’s sister in Sex, Lies, and Videotape, I wanted to know: What was it like to let his incredible eyebrows do literally all of the work for a 105-minute feature film? So I called up Gallagher - who’s currently pulling double duty as a dad with a rare neurological condition on Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist and as Jane Fonda’s new husband on Grace & Frankie - and we had a delightful, animated conversation about falling asleep on camera, how he improvised his way through a poorly rewritten script, what sort of grooming work goes into his eyebrows, and the time he was almost run over by Roger Ebert.Ī post shared by Rachel Handler what you said back! I wanted to ask you how often you say that to people who approach you. As Peter lies pleasantly comatose in a local hospital, a series of confusing conversations leads Peter’s boisterous Irish family to believe Lucy is his fiancée. When Peter falls weirdly onto the tracks for a reason that’s unclear to me even as I rewatch the scene while typing this (someone seems to be mocking his very long scarf?), Lucy jumps down and rescues him. Gallagher plays Peter, a cute yuppie lawyer whom Lucy, Bullock’s lonely CTA token-taker, falls in love with from afar. ![]() What sets While You Were Sleeping apart from its rom-com peers is that one of its biggest and most charismatic stars spends the majority of the movie totally unconscious. Unfortunately, we cannot say the same for Peter Gallagher. This deeply soothing predictability means that While You Were Sleeping lulls you into a gentle Midwestern stupor - but not (and this is important) a coma. It’s set in Chicago (cheaper than New York, with similar romantic cachet). It stars one of the Big Three rom-com leads (Sandra, Julia, Meg) underplaying her good looks with big sweaters and Chinese takeout containers and cats. While You Were Sleeping hits all of the compulsory beats of the ’90s rom-com: “This Will Be (An Everlasting Love)” plays over the opening credits. ![]() The actor talks falling asleep on camera, eyebrow grooming, and the time he was almost run over by Roger Ebert.
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