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Before Challengers, Josh O’Connor Served Sex and Swagger in a Masterpiece Series
On The Durrells in Corfu, where he spends much of his time banging away on a typewriter and screaming.
But Larry can be thoughtful, too, helping his mother navigate the ups and downs of her slow-burning love affair with the suave and congenial local cab driver Spiros Halikiopoulos (played beautifully by Greek actor/politician Alexis Georgoulis) and delivering the occasional well-meant compliment to his younger siblings Margo, Leslie, and Gerry, who, for the most part, are wonderfully batty and wholly self-absorbed. Larry is his family’s conscience, advocating for the free press and taking up the cause of Sven, a Swedish, goat-farming neighbor who is, at one point earlier in the series, engaged to Mrs. Durrell until it’s quietly revealed that he’s actually gay. That’s not too dissimilar from O’Connor’s Challengers character, Patrick Zweig, who seems to see the world with a sort of transactional clarity, whether that means sweet-talking a pro-shop worker for half a bagel sandwich or cutting to the core of Tashi Duncan’s psychosexual machinations.
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