The actor behind Commander Lawrence opens up about getting inside his head.
fame—could perform this precise dance between sardonic humor, chilling indifference, and tender affection. For the former, Whitford played Deputy Chief of Staff Josh Lyman, the wily scamp with a bleeding heart of gold in Aaron Sorkin's legendary early-aughts White House drama. In the latter, Jordan Peele's Oscar-winning directorial debut, Whitford's character entered the zeitgeist with his famous proclamation,"I would've voted for Obama a third time if I could.
Episode 5 sees Lawrence's humanity continue to surface. When Eleanor tries to comfort June, the conversation turns to painful reflection, with Mrs. Lawrence longing for the man who courted her with mix tapes decades ago. Later, June spies the couple bonding over the music, freshly unearthed from a moldy box in the basement. Don't read too much into the Commander's apparent thawing, though. Whitford claims he doesn’t know Lawrence's endgame, and he prefers it that way.
He adds his own frustration about gender politics swallowing the forthcoming presidential election. “It's amazing to me that there's all this talk among my friends [right now] of, ‘Can a woman... do we want to risk this moment?’ I understand the concern. It's an existential election and we have to win it,” he acknowledges. “But after John Kerry lost, nobody said, ‘We just can't risk running another man.
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