THE DAY PAUL IS SCHEDULED to get home from New York, Alex has to face one of his greatest rounds of fame horror yet. He’s done photoshoots before and knows the drill. That’s nothing new. But he’s never done a photoshoot like this.
It’s for GQ and for a feature all about him. This is totally different than being part of an Emmys preview or a focus piece on Fourth. And while people have done solo profiles about Alex before, they’ve never been in a publication this big or with an angle like this.
This time, the whole piece is predicated on the idea of him having become a big-budget movie star. The prospect feels remote even as it is what’s happening in his life.
Most ridiculously, there’s a videographer documenting the photoshoot process for some sort of web special. Alex doesn’t know when
