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Watch John Early Stress in This Stress Positions Clip
My neck, my back, my terrorist attack.
Stop us if you’ve heard this one before: An alcoholic trans bodywork therapist, a gay near divorcé in agonizing back pain, and a half-Moroccan 19-year-old male model in a leg cast walk into a party house. In this scene exclusively shared with Vulture, Hammel’s character, Karla, is visiting her friend Terry Goon (a perfectly bedraggled John Early) and his nephew and houseguest, Bahlul (Qaher Harhash), at the height of summer 2020’s pandemic lockdowns. Much of the movie’s comedy is kinetic and physical, a farce full of moving parts set on every floor of the dilapidated brownstone: poppers gas masks repurposed for COVID safety, an obnoxious doorbell that keeps summoning Terry to limp-waddle to and fro, a couple of deeply consequential pratfalls, and a Chekhov’s Theragun.
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