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No Longer Just a Nepo Friend


After years in celebrity orbit, Owen Thiele is taking center stage.

In 2022, The Bear actress Molly Gordon, with whom he has been friends since their days at the Adderley School, was writing her movie Theater Camp and cast him as chaotic costume director Gigi Charbonier, who bosses around the campers, in acrylic nails and a jaunty scarf. A few months after the Glazer meeting, he was at a dinner party with Call Her Daddy podcast founder Alex Cooper, telling the table about how he sleeps only two hours a night. “Someone has to do it — that should be in my bio.” (It sort of is, actually: His Instagram bio reads “diversity hire .”) I ask if his life has changed since the podcast came out and his autobiographical show was announced.

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