Iām not too familiar with Karl Glusman as anything besides āZoe Kravitzās husband.ā I know Iāve seen him in movies, but he seems to have that slippery kind of look of a career character actor rather than a leading man. I am not saying that with disrespect! Character actors are awesome. But my point is that who knows anything about Karl Glusman the man? I came into Karlās Mr. Porter interview kind of blind, and now that I know some stuff about himā¦ I still have questions. Did you know that heās some kind of Friends superfan? LOL. Why did Zoe marry him, oh my lord?? You can read the full piece here. Some highlights:
He prefers clothes with holes: āIn our household, holes in your T-shirts are cool.ā
What he was wearing when he proposed to ZoĆ« Kravitz: He proposed in sweatpants and a shabby Friends T-shirt, after all. āI was on the verge of having a panic attack so I needed to get into something much more loose and comfortable.ā
He claims they both love Friends: āWe love Friends. I tried to convince ZoĆ« to get the furniture from the cafĆ© or [Monica and Rachelās] apartment; that picture frame around the peephole on the door. But she is strongly against any of that, like, āNo, absolutely not!āā
He tried to improve his style for Zoe: āWhen we started dating, I did feel like I needed to get nicer clothes. Itās funny, over time you relax around each other more, and thatās when ZoĆ« started commenting that she really liked how I was dressing. I was like, āThis is how Iāve been dressing since middle schoolā. You know, sneakers, baggy pants and oversized T-shirts. I could have saved myself all that money.ā
Heās had dry spells where he doesnāt work for a year: āHobbies are good. I love building up and riding bicycles. The one Iāve been spending most of my time on ā my baby ā is a fixed-gear Cannondale Track 1992. Some people think itās cool, others think itās super nerdy, but itās a beautiful, sought-after frame. I get a lot of compliments when I go into the bike shop, but my wife looks at it and sheās like, āYeah, itās a bicycleā. I put on real flattering spandex and go fast so none of my friends recognise me.ā
His wedding in Paris: āIt really is the city of love. Literally, in so many ways for me. The wedding day itself was really sweet. I was really nervous that I wouldnāt even have fun at my own wedding.ā
The Friends obsession is so Millennial, and Generation Z is right there too. And I donāt get it at all – Iām not trying to hobby-shame and yes, people can enjoy whatever they want to enjoy. But the continued obsession with Friends among the youths is still so utterly strange to me. Friends was a huge deal 1994-2004. Karl is 32, which means he was 16 years old when the show ended, and he probably grew up watching it too. Why is he STILL watching it? Why is he still wearing Friends t-shirts (to propose to Zoe?!?!) and wanting Monicaās ā90s interior design? My God. So, now I know more about Karl Glusman. Now I know that heās probably not cool enough for Zoe.
Instagrams from Mr. Porter and Karl Glusmanās IG.
I only saw him in one movie (that I know of), I think it’s called Love. The sex scenes were real and holy crap, it was beautiful but I didn’t expect it (wasn’t my choice to watch it)
PS : I’m 23 and I have never watched friends, none of my friends do… I don’t know, french people here who are watching it?
Iām French and 36 and yes Iām obsessed by Friends. It is still the best sitcom to me and Iāve seen all episodes many times. It reminds me my teenage years. Every now and then I will watch an episode and enjoy it with nostalgia for the 90ās
I’m French and 40 and never really watched it, it always seemed kind of corny and too mainstream for me. I do laugh when i see the occasional episode, but i could never got emotional involved with the characters. I was more of a Buffy the vampire slayer type of person xD but i have friends my age who loved it !
Friends was on from my mid 20ās to mid 30ās. I watched a few episodes, but never found it funny.
I’m a 37 years old french and I watched Friends in the early 2000’s, liked it then but never came back. I think it aged awfully. I’m also more a Buffy type. My 25 years old sisters loves Friends, she watches it every year or so and I totally don’t get it. We didn’t have much series at the time, especially in France, but now with all the good series everywhere I don’t get the Friends passion.
I like Monica’s place though š
You guys… I am aging myself but when I studied in Paris I watched Sous le Soleil when I was depressed. So many memories. I only discovered friends when I was in my 30s and found it hilarious but I agree it hasn’t aged well.
Hahaha ! Souuuuuuus le soleieieieil
That was hilariously bad
Laure’s dresses used to make me so mad. It was always the same dress in different pastel shades during a hundred seasons. Like girl try something ffs
OMG you sang the intro! š Laure was the annoying āseriousā character that you kind of admire but find so utterly boring! Lol
That show was seriously bad and the acting was outrageously awful. But I could not stop watching…
Omg sous le soleil!!! My mom really liked that show (I was too young) and they even did some sort of spin off of the show a few years after with one of the actress… Or maybe it wasn’t related but it was the same style (sun, bad acting and annoying drama lol)
I didn’t watch it when it was coming out because I was relatively young for most of it’s run. I watched it on Netflix fully a few years ago. It was ‘fine’. Like I get that there just weren’t many options at the time. But there are just so many other shows that are better. It’s a basic bitch show – like if a tv show could wear ugg boots and drink pumpkin spice lattes it’d be this show. Some of it was REALLY funny, but most of it was just dumb.
But I feel the same way about How I Met Your Mother. Honestly, a lot of big sitcoms just kind of suck. They have to make the jokes accessible for too wide of a group of people for things to be super clever or witty. Happy Endings and Life in Pieces and Always Sunny are infinitely better shows than HIMYM or Friends.
Sometimes I’m relatively convinced that these shows aren’t even as popular as they’re made out to be. I have a hard time believing that with all the platforms to stream and watch shows on that highschool kids genuinely find Friends funny or superior to other shows they’re watching. I think there’s just a lot of people watching it to be ‘part of something’ or whatever because a lot of people around them are talking about it. And most people have seen at least a few episodes so they can jump in with who their favorite character is or whatever without spending a lot of time watching.
It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia is SO FUNNY! My boyfriend turned me onto it a few years ago and I’m obsessed. I never got into Friends. It has it’s moments, but I think shows from that era like Frasier still hold up.
I did enjoy Frasier from what I’d watched. I watched Seinfeld for the first time a few months ago and enjoyed that more than Friends for the most part.
My main problem with these huge 90’s shows is that they’re just SO boring. Nothing really happens, and the studio audience or laugh tracks are just SO bad. And even the edgier ones just couldn’t ever really be edgy.
God I so agree with you. Basic basic basic.
But oh my god don’t get me started on the mysoginy of How I met your Mother. That show insults every atom of my body.
Seinfeld at least had the critical view of a prickly personality (Larry David and Seinfeld) which made it really funny and clever albeit misanthropic.
I’m firmly in the millennial category and I don’t get the obsession with friends either. I wonder though if it has something to do with it constantly being on when we were growing up? The new episodes finished up when I was a preeteen but it just gets repeated over and over on certain TV channels. So, even though a lot of us missed it’s hayday, I suppose it’s kind of comfortingly familiar for a lot of people.
I think he’s too young to have cared about it in the original run, he would have been 6 when it started!
My guess is it’s all Netflix – Friends (before it left the platform) and the Office are hugely popular with the younger crowds because they binge it, and there’s so many episodes, you can really get into it.
He’s so right about hobbies being good. I have a lot of hobbies and could keep myself busy for ages, but a friend of mine has none, and his is really struggling. He’s always talked about early retirement, but I bet this is making him rethink that.
Fellow 32 year-old and I love Friends as well. I wouldn’t call it an obsession, but it’s one of my favorite shows. I don’t seek it out, but if a rerun is on I might watch. It’s a comfort thing. (I feel the same way about The Office and the Golden Girls). But I have friends who hate it, so it’s not all of us.
He had a part in Naomi Watts’ vehicle, “Gypsy”. I loved this show.
I really liked GYPSY too, I was bummed it was only one season. He was also in a weird a$$ movie called NEON FLUX, I don’t recommend it…
he was on DEVS a recent Hulu series, great sci fi show with Nick Offerman
Been hearing good things about DEVS – it’s on my watch list. I never ‘got’ Friends – pleasant enough when I saw an episode, but that’s all.
I’m an early Millenial and have only seen re-runs but honestly never cared much and didn’t understand the hype. My favourite teenage shows were Dawson’s Creek and The X-Files and I was an avid watcher of The Simpsons at the time when the show was so good.
For comedy I like the style of shows like Community or Sillicon Valley.
Those wedding photos are beautiful.
Did you guys watch Love? It’s on Netflix and the first scene is a real Glusman ejaculation full on, on screen, in ou face, as it were. I never really recovered from that first scene and the film just keeps on getting more and more sexually weird without a real connection with the audience (for me).
I cannot not think about it when I see his face and I am far from prudish.
Yes I watched it…. To be honest the sex scenes were beautiful (and oh boy they were real…) But it was just some sort of soft p*rn for me… No point in this movie otherwise
Yāall, Friends is fine but it totally ripped off a much much better show called Living Single. If you like Friends do yourself a favor and watch Living Single.
I like Friends and rewatched it recently, but I don’t really get the new found love. A lot of the 90s jokes didn’t really age well. And the show is way too white.