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Charlie Hall’sfirst leading role couldn’t be more different than his mom’s famous characterSelina Meyer. Where Selina is profane, overconfident and never self-reflective, Hall’s namesake character is hilariously unsure of himself and non-confrontational.
Each of the four points on the list — you’ll never do better than me, you have no friends, you’re horrible at sex and you have no confidence — also serve as the inspiration for the episode titles. Fortunately, the hilarious, albeit heartbreaking, breakup didn’t happen to Hall in real life, but he told PEOPLE that the short bit prompted him and Price to expand the scene into a series.
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“We wanted to do something funny, and we had this first scene of me getting brutally broken up with,” Hall, 22, said. “We had already written that together, and so we just decided to expand it and make it a little episodic.”
Hall, who studied film at Northwestern, has been creating videos since he was a kid and said he “pretty religiously” watches movies, but didn’t know he wanted to be part of the filmmaking industry until recently.
Since graduating in June, the young star has acted in the upcoming Disney+ seriesLove, Simonand Netflix movie,Moxie, but he said that at the time he created it,Sorry, Charliewas his “most official” project. He added that it was also the first project he “had ownership of, and it felt really good.”
Hall, who created the web series while still a student andmember of Northwestern’s basketball team, was able to turn to his star-studded family for help withSorry, Charlie. His parents, Louis-Dreyfus andSaturday Night LivealumnusBrad Hall,“have a ton of experience writing and reading scripts,” he said, and were able to help with the writing process, while hisbrother Henry’smusic plays throughout the series.
Hall also opened up about his mother’sbreast cancer diagnosis in 2017, saying “it’s a struggle to have that happen to your mom.” Despite that, he mainly had an optimistic view of the experience.
“I felt pretty lucky,” Hall shared. “Both just with the care she was able to receive and also the support from our family and friends and people reaching out to me and stuff. I think we all very much felt like we had a team, that we were not alone.”
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Louis-Dreyfusrevealed that she was in remission in 2018, about a year after first announcing her diagnosis.
Hall said he’s hoping to create a film project again soon followingSorry, Charlie, but for now he wants to share some of his sports predictions with the world.
As for theNCAA basketball tournament?
“I’m just going to say Northwestern, even if it doesn’t happen,” said Hall, who was a member of the Northwestern team for their first ever tournament bid in 2017. “I’ve got to stay strong to my alma mater — always go NU.”
source: people.com
