C.Aitlin Stasey has a very honest endorsement for her latest project, the new eight-part survival comedy Class Of ’07: “I love the cast, and I wouldn’t say it if I didn’t, because I’m not very good.” in pretending that I like people.
Stasey has starred in Australian favorites Neighbors and Please Like Me, as well as Hollywood blockbusters like the recent horror film Smile. But not every TV show or movie does as well as the Class of 2007.
“There are so many times you could do a project that is very dear to you and then in the process of shooting and editing things get lost in translation,” he says. “But this is one of the rare moments in my career where everything has come together perfectly.”
In addition to her on-screen roles, Stasey is known for her outspoken social media posts (although she now prefers to use her Instagram more for photos of her dog and girlfriend). Here, Stasey shares the tool she uses to control her screen time and the reason she hopes her girlfriend doesn’t read this interview.
What I would save from my house in a fire
I have this big beautiful oil painting of what I think is a family of Afghan hounds in my living room. It’s huge, the size of my body. I bought it at the Rose Bowl Flea Market in Los Angeles and it’s my favorite piece of art I’ve ever seen in a home. I’ve tried to find out who the artist is with no luck – I did a reverse google image search and it doesn’t show up anywhere. So I don’t know what it is or who did it or why he did it, but I really love it. It’s such a haunting image.
There are three adults and five pups in the painting. My girlfriend and I always make up different stories about them, like two of the dogs are a couple and there is a Succession type rivalry between the puppies. During Covid we lost our minds, obviously. We spent a lot of time looking at that painting.
My most useful item
A small cylindrical methacrylate box in which I close my phone when I overdo it on Instagram. Because, you know, I’m very millennial in that sense. I get caught up in social networks a lot and I can waste a lot of time on them. So I use the box to try to reduce my screen time, which is currently unacceptable.
You can set the amount of time you want to lock your phone. You then close the thing and it doesn’t open until the timer is up, unless you actually destroy the item, which I’m not addicted enough to do. You would really have to commit to getting your phone out of there. But I accidentally put it in there for 10 hours one time and that was pretty stressful.
The item I most regret losing
Well, I don’t know for sure if it was my fault, but I have this horrible feeling that I lost a beautiful Versace bomber jacket that belonged to my girlfriend, which she has had since she was about 12 years old.
One day he disappeared from our house, and the only person who could have lost him is her or me. And considering that she’s had it since she was a child, it’s highly unlikely that it was her. We have never talked about it. This will be the first time I admit that maybe I’m going crazy, the first time she’ll hear me admit that maybe I’m going crazy, so we’ll try to keep this interview as far away from her as possible. But it was beautiful and I feel immense guilt. I’m still looking to find a replacement and haven’t had any luck yet.
Like I said, I don’t know. Safely that I lost it because I don’t remember taking it. But I have a very bad memory, so it was most likely me. I’ve been distracted my whole life: I went to Girl Guide camp when I was eight and the lost and found box was full of my stuff. At the end of the camp, they just handed me the whole box.