Linda Holmes

Then you go into another room and it's Marcia Gay Harden.

And it's like...

This is just a really cool collection of people.

Cheyenne's very pious boyfriend.

Yes.

He'll surprise you.

There are moments where you expect him to be really judgy because he is so, so proud of his piety.

And then he isn't.

And then there are other times where you kind of expect he wouldn't be, and he is, and you sort of don't know for sure.

I also want to give a shout to Michael Angarano, who plays the professor who is Bodhi's father.

You really have to be careful when you play the odious person in a story like this, which he essentially is because...

He offers her no help.

First of all, he sleeps with a student and gets her pregnant.

But then is not helpful, is not interested, is kind of callous to her, is definitely one of these guys who sees it as, like, if you insist on having this baby, that becomes your problem.

Yeah.

I mean, that's a hell of a statement.

It's quite a thing to say.

Like, you have to be able to, like, revel in his awfulness without making it impossible to understand why she had an affair with him.

And I think they sort of give him enough, like, from the things that he's saying to her at the beginning of the book, he's giving her for one, of the story.

For one thing, he's giving her a lot of reassurance that she needs.