Update your settings here, then reload the page to see it. “I’m your dad.”Īnd after a moment, Liam, playing Remy, smiles and goes to hug Nathan, lost in the puzzle of his own design.This content is not available due to your privacy preferences. “No,” Nathan responds, almost villainously. “Wait, I thought you were my mom,” Liam says in a whisper, breaking character to remind Nathan of his role. “And I’m always gonna be here for you, because I’m your dad.” Because no matter what you experience, we have each other,” Nathan continues. She makes mistakes too,” Nathan says to Liam, who is dialing back fake tears. That’s a weird thing for a little kid to be a part of. In an unsettling final scene, Nathan (playing Remy’s mom) explains to Liam (playing Remy) that Leiss (playing Nathan) is not his father, but rather a “pretend Daddy.” It’s an exact replica of an earlier scene. It’s a never-ending Russian doll of theater, as Nathan once again simulates his talk with Remy - this time, as his mother.
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Then, Nathan goes full Fielder Method, transforming himself into Remy’s mom in an effort to fully understand the other side of “The Rehearsal.” Instead of participating in the simulation directly, Nathan’s in the control room, with Fake Nathan from Episode 4 (Alexander Leiss) filling in for him inside the house.
He revisits his hard conversation with Remy, but with actors. “Maybe the best use of my resources at this point would be to figure out what I could have done differently,” Nathan says in voiceover as he analyzes footage of his scenes with Remy like a quarterback might study film. But instead, he plunges deeper into the illusion, turning Liam into Remy into Adam in order to rehearse his own rehearsal. In this brief moment of poignance, it seems like Nathan might finally come up for air, realizing the harm his experiment has caused on its subjects - and, perhaps, himself. Then Liam, in what is somehow the most heart-wrenching line in the series, says: “I mean, you’re a great scene partner.” “Yes,” Liam says, to which Nathan responds: “Do you feel like I’m believable as a dad?” “You know I’m not your real dad, right? We’re just acting, you know that, right?” Nathan asks Liam. For the first time in the entire series, he breaks character. When Nathan returns to his fake home with his fake son (now played by a 9-year-old Liam), he finds it difficult to emotionally commit to the simulation. “I don’t want you to be Nathan,” Remy says, and it dawns on Nathan that the young boy might not understand the subtleties of acting.
Later on, Nathan visits Remy at his real home to hang out, and to try to delicately explain that they’re just friends, and he’s just a “pretend Daddy.” After trying to console the young kid, Nathan has a conversation with his mom, who tells him, “He sees other kids with dads… and he’s definitely wondering, ‘Where’s mine?'” On his last day on set, Remy refuses to change out of his “Adam wardrobe,” crying about not wanting to leave the rehearsal. But in this episode, he discovers the heartbreaking consequences of blurring the lines between reality and fantasy when one of the child actors, 6-year-old Remy, is unable to detach Nathan from Daddy. Nathan repeatedly combats convoluted, seemingly minor problems with inconvenient and absurd solutions for the sake of comedy. Nathan covering his fake home with fake snow to simulate winter, or hiring a fake mailman to pick up Angela’s fake mail. The school drop-off is the type of gag we’ve seen throughout the HBO series, i.e.
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