Eva Victor is carrying a ludicrously capacious bag. When I can’t help but reference the now memed-to-death Succession bit, Victor juts out their jaw and says, in a pitch-perfect Tom Wambsgans impression, “Shiv.”
I’m relieved, if not surprised, that Victor got the reference. The actor-writer-director, who is 31 and uses they/she pronouns, has spent the past decade or so as a niche internet presence, going viral periodically with satirical videos and bone-dry one-liners (“Someday, I hope a man takes off my clothes with the same care he takes off the tinfoil of his carnitas burrito”). But now, they’re introducing themselves to a whole new audience — in a whole new way — with Sorry, Baby, an intimate, poignant drama that just closed out the Cannes Film Festival in May…
