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fic prompt: Matt and foggy raising Sam like overbearing parents. that includes making sure he makes good decisions including dating life

Couldn’t imagine Ini Matt and Fogs getting involved in Sam’s dating life, anon. But I could imagine Kirsten unwittingly becoming her mother in that kind of situation, so please do have a smidge of that:

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Sam was 100% flirting with someone over there on that phone of his. He kept checking it like he was waiting on a phone call from a potential employer and alternated between a frown and slow grin when his “friend” messaged him back.

Kirsten would not rest until this person had been vetted and she had just the guy for the job.

Matt and Tuesday stared at her with the exact same expression on their faces when she got them alone in Matt’s office.

“Kirsten,” Matt said slowly, “Did you forget that this is a screen-based activity?”

CURSES.

Foggy it was then. He was a serial gossiper and fervent protector of Sams. He would do it.

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Foggy had covered his desk in paper like a daytime tv detective trying to find his murdered wife. He hunched protectively over it when Kirsten opened his door.

She analyzed the situation.

“Foggy, you can’t read blueprints,” she said, “You need to stop trying.”

“I can,” Foggy snapped. “And I will. You just wait.”

Alright sure. When the end of time came around, they’d be ready and waiting. In the meantime: Sam.

Foggy failed to give the appropriate response to Kirsten’s articulated concerns.

“He’s 24, Kirsten,” he said. “I’d be more worried if he wasn’t talking to people.”

No, but listen.

Sam was their 24 year-old now. Theirs. To cherish and protect from the great, wide world. He was young and vulnerable, in heart and in mind—but especially in heart. They had a responsibility as his mentors to—

“Remember when Matt told Peter never to fuck his best friends?”

–Uh. Rude in the interrupting department, but yes.

“And remember how Peter told Matt to go fuck himself and that he was an adult and could make his own bad decisions, thanks?”

Ooooh. She didn’t like where this was going.

“And then remember how he went out and fucked his best friends and ended up with a highly fulfilling relationship which none of us could have ever predicted given his history of dating people who either wanted to kill him or break him into pieces?”

Really didn’t like where this was going.

“Yes,” she said carefully. “But Sam is different.”

Foggy quirked an eyebrow at her.

“He is,” she argued. “Peter’s a ball of manic energy. Sammy is a gentle soul.”

Foggy stood up and rolled his eyes. He pushed past her in the doorway and barked into the waiting area where Sam had commandeered the secretary desk “Samuel. Do they have a criminal record?”

Sam slammed his phone down on to the desk.

“Who now?” he asked, dragging up the box of files he was supposed to be scanning through.

“Whoever it is you’re messaging,” Foggy said, bold and plain as day.

Sam started scanning faster.

“I don’t know who you’re talking about,” he said.

Foggy gave Kirsten a meaningful look.

Okay, point made. This would be harder than expected. Sammy was shy.

UGH.

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“Matt, go talk to him,” she threatened that afternoon with a fist at the knot of Matt’s tie. He kept trying to worm his fingers under hers to escape, but she was having none of that today. “He respects you. He’s got to know that it’s okay to talk about these things. What if he goes out and this person’s a murderer, Matt? What if she’s trying to lure him in to break his heart?”

Matt’s giant mitts should not have been that good at finnicky work. He extracted his tie and pulled back, smoothing it down in offense.

“If Sam wants to date a maneater, then he wants to date a maneater,” he said, “And I fail to see how this is my problem—sometimes, you just gotta learn the hard way. Lord knows I did.”

Not the appropriate response, Matthew.

“He’s lying about it,” she said

“He lies about his personal life all the time,” Matt huffed. “Ain’t it enough that he lives downstairs from us? Yeesh, Kirst. Give the guy a break. He’s his own person, you know.”

Yes, and he was allowed to be his own person and make his own mistakes but—

“Darlin’, breathe. He’s gonna be fine. Just let him—”

Matt paused and they both heard Sam call, “I’m headed out, guys! See you later!” followed by the shutting of the main entrance door.

Kirsten grabbed the arms of Matt’s chair and loomed over him.

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“Samuel.”

Sam was on the counter before she could even say ‘go.’

“Oh, thank god,” he sighed with a hand on his chest when she flicked on the kitchen light switch to reveal herself. “Are you staying the night, Kirsten?”

“Where were you?” she interrogated, feeling maybe a little like her mother, but not bad about it.

“Out?” he tried. He did not step off the counter. He had evidently received this treatment before.

“With who?” she demanded, crossing her arms into Matt’s velvety red bathrobe, the one he’d bought specifically so that he could languish in style on the couch in it while injured. Foggy had been plotting to steal it and get ‘Professional Idiot’ embroidered on the back of it since it first entered the house last year.

“With—” Sam started.

“A girl?” Kirsten snapped. “You out with a girl at this time of night, Samuel? Did you walk her home?”

Sam slowly climbed off the counter.

“Are you my mom now?” he asked. “’Cause you sound exactly like my mom. Are we gonna have a ‘get someone pregnant and I’ll murder you myself’ talk too? ‘Cause I’ve had that one at least forty times.”

Oho.

Ohoho.

Hm.

Actually. That was a pretty good idea.

“Samuel.”

Both of them turned to see Matt looking bed-rumpled and grumpy in the doorway.

“Shoes. Food surface.”

Sam winced.

“Sorry, sorry,” he said. “Cleaning it now. Kirsten surprised me. Apparently we’re having a reverse shovel talk.”

Matt made a series of grumpy old man noises, oblivious to the power that he had over this boy. He turned around to head back to his and Fog’s and the dog’s bedroom, then paused in the middle of the living room and directed a sour look back their way.

“You smell like sex,” he said flat out.

Sam went white and then bright red in an instant.

“I?—I??? Sorry??” he stammered.

“Use protection,” Matt said.

“Yes, sir,” Sam nearly whimpered.

“If you don’t have any, get some or ask.”

Sam could have just about died.

“Yes, sensei,” he said miserably.

Matt grumbled and waved a hand their way in dismissal before abandoning them to go flop down on Foggy again.

Sam and Kirsten watched him vanish into the abyss and then turned back to face each other.

She pointed a finger at him.

He pointed one back.

“These are my adult, informed decisions which I am making and have made with consenting, also informed adults,” he said before she could get a word in. “Also, you are not my mom or my sister and while I respect you and what you’re doing, we aren’t there yet. So, like. I dunno. Boundaries, please?”

She didn’t like it.

But you know what?

She got it.

“Fine,” she said “But I want to know all their names and if they’re cute and if they’re nice so I know who I need to fight if something ever goes south.”

Sam considered that for a long, long moment.

“Deal,” he said.

They shook on it.

“CLEAN THE COUNTER,” Matt shouted just before they split off in mutual agreement.

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#fic #samuel chung #kirsten mcduffie #I am fascinated by Sam's relationship with Kirsten #like he'll defer to Matt easy and he views Foggy as an extension of Matt in some ways and so defers to him and wants to please him too #but Kirsten is a whole different story #She's vehemently part of Matt and yet not part of him and she's Sam's friend but also one of his bosses #and as a woman she has a different relationship with him which both he and she are struggling to define #ficlet

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'I always felt like I was the funny friend of girls that I fancied' - Chris O'Dowd reflects his teen years

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'I always felt like I was the funny friend of girls that I fancied' - Chris O'Dowd reflects his teen years

Dawn O’Porter (L) and husband Chris O’Dowd attend the red carpet premiere of EPIX original series “Get Shorty” at Pacfic Design Center on August 10, 2017 in West Hollywood, California. (Photo by David Livingston/Getty Images)

Presenter Dawn Porter and fiance Actor Chris O’Dowd attend Fashion Kicks in aid of Macmillan Cancer Support, Beechwood Cancer Care Centre Stockport and the Chefs Adopt a School Project at Lancashire County Cricket Club on May 1, 2012 in Manchester, England. (Photo by Shirlaine Forrest/WireImage)

Actor Chris O’Dowd and wife Dawn Porter attend “The Sapphires” after party during the 2012 Toronto International Film Festival at The Brandt House on September 9, 2012 in Toronto, Canada. (Photo by Todd Oren/Getty Images for Weinstein)

Chris O’Dowd and Dawn Porter attend the Elle Style Awards at The Savoy Hotel on February 11, 2013 in London, England. (Photo by Mike Marsland/WireImage)

Chris O’Dowd attends the “Juliet, Naked” New York Premiere at Metrograph on August 14, 2018 in New York City. (Photo by Nicholas Hunt/Getty Images)

Chris O’Dowd in Get Shorty

Actors Chris O’Dowd, Rose Byrne and Ethan Hawke attend the “Juliet, Naked” New York Premiere at Metrograph on August 14, 2018 in New York City. (Photo by Nicholas Hunt/Getty Images)

Chris O’Dowd with his wife Dawn O’Porter

Chris O’Dowd and Dawn O’Porter attend the launch party for The Pool, a unique multi-media platform for busy women co-founded by renowned editor and journalist Sam Baker and broadcaster Lauren Laverne, on April 23, 2015 in London, England. www.the-pool.com (Photo by Samir Hussein/Getty Images for The Pool)

‘I always felt like I was the funny friend of girls that I fancied’ – Chris O’Dowd reflects his teen years

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Chris O’Dowd ambles into a café to meet me a week before he turns 39.

But by his own biological calendar, that birthday is long gone. In O’Dowd years, he’s already 52. “It’s like, ‘Am I not f**king 40 yet?’ I turned 39 when I was about 26. I feel like I’ve been very old for a very long time,” he says, squinting his close-set eyes. “I was the youngest and last kid [of five], left at home as my parents were breaking up. As a 15-year-old, I took on the behaviour of the man of the house. I was a child-man. That’s why I’ve played a lot of man-children.”

His overgrown boys have included tech slacker Roy Trenneman, his breakout role in Channel 4’s cult comedy The IT Crowd, record label jerk Ronnie in Judd Apatow’s This Is 40, and an assortment of oafs (not least a bad boyfriend in Girls). But since his turn in Bridesmaids in 2011, O’Dowd has become a regular in Apatow’s Hollywood gang of everymen. It was Apatow who suggested O’Dowd for the role of his latest emotionally stunted male: Duncan, a narcissistic music nerd in the film adaptation of Nick Hornby’s Juliet, Naked.

This is the first of two projects with Hornby. “I’m starting to feel like his muse,” he says chuckling, but he’s keen to dis-identify with the Hornby-esque male. “I don’t have the arrested development of his characters,” he insists. “I was brought up in a matriarchal household. My mother is a therapist, so we had mature conversations about behaviour and identity. Hornby characters believe, ‘You are what you like’. That’s increasingly part of the male psyche as we are clutching for an identity. We were told for centuries that our identity was tied up with machismo and now we are seeing that machismo has a lot of drawbacks.”

O’Dowd’s public image as the affable Irish slacker who merely stumbled into breaking America does not exactly tally with his dynamic CV. But he’s still conscious that “today’s cockerel is tomorrow’s feather duster”. On his writing desk at home in LA he keeps a photo of a “spit bucket” full of 30 half-masticated burgers for an ad he once did, to remind himself that his success is “not just a given”. He admits to suffering less from impostor syndrome than “an Irish inferiority complex. The British can be a bit snooty about Irish people, even now. They’ve seen the danger of the Irish that the Americans haven’t. Americans just see the Irish as jesters.”

It doesn’t bother him, he says, that he’s still seen as a comic actor despite a raft of dramas over the last five years. But some things do. In fact he can get quite riled, for starters, on the subject of Catholicism. In 2014, in John McDonagh’s Calvary, he played a wife-beating butcher wreaking vengeance on the church for being sexually abused by a priest as a boy. O’Dowd didn’t track down historical Irish victims for his research, he tells me, partly because he already knew so many. “They are not that uncommon. I know many people who priests have exposed themselves to.” He is a vehement atheist, and says the “small turn-out” for Pope Francis’s visit to Ireland in August is “the shape of things to come. For hundreds of years, the Catholic Church provided an identity for Ireland at a time that we were suppressed. The need is no longer there. So if they are going to keep f**king kids, they are in trouble.”

Read more: Review: Chris O’Dowd is pricelessly funny from start to finish in ‘Juliet, Naked’

The state of oratory is another one of his bugbears: he once wanted to be a political speechwriter. “Theresa May is such a terrible speaker. There’s so much verbosity and such a lack of creativity. Obviously in America, it’s become so juvenile. Taking ideology out of it, the conversation is dumbing because it’s so poor in its execution.” And Brexit: “Increasingly I’m like, ‘F**k the People. F**k you, if you didn’t get that they were lying to you’. It’s like a clown told me a story and I chose to believe it… It’s such a low ebb of human civilisation, a really dangerous time for Anglo-Irish relations. Boris Johnson wants a bridge to Ireland? What’s that going to solve?” Suddenly he stops, worried about moaning.

O’Dowd was born in Boyle, Co Roscommon, to Sean, a graphic designer, and psychotherapist Denise. He was left to the tyranny of his three sisters at 11, after his older brother left home. They amused themselves by painting make-up on their sleeping brother before sending him to school. As a survival mechanism O’Dowd developed a “big personality” in tandem with his fast-growing body. “I was 6ft tall by the time I was 11. I was a looming, towering figure of ridicule”. He played Gaelic football for the county. But, he says, he was never a “Jack the lad”.

By 13, he was already helping raise his 17-year-old sister’s baby. “I always felt like I was the funny friend of girls that I fancied. I found a position of comfort in that.”

By his own account, O’Dowd stumbled into acting after he accompanied a friend to an audition at University College Dublin, where he was studying politics and sociology. He paid his way through drama school with hod-carrying: “It was a very odd time: I’d get up at 5am to work on a building site, then go to a flamenco f**king class.”

There followed breaks in theatre, Vera Drake (2004) and a three-year stint on Irish drama The Clinic. But it was his role in The Festival in 2005 that brought him to the attention of Graham Linehan, who was casting for The IT Crowd.

Since the series began in 2006, the image of “techies” has gone from basement to virtual rock stars. “Our perception of what IT guys are has changed from Bill Gates to Elon Musk.” He’s not entirely sorry that Musk and Mark Zuckerberg have been “getting their comeuppance” recently. “I just think that it’s odd that people who seem so socially stunted have got so much control over our lives.” In 2009 he took a one-way ticket to Los Angeles, where he stumbled upon the “naturalistic” comedy creator Judd Apatow backstage at a Louis CK gig. “I said, ‘F**k me, that’s Judd Apatow. I think he’s the reason I came over here.”

Read more: Dawn O’Porter says she was too proud to come home after her US series was dropped

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The other life-altering encounter in Los Angeles was with Scottish TV presenter and writer Dawn Porter; she changed her name to O’Porter when they married in 2012. There were only brief bachelor days before then, with co-star Jason Segel as his wingman. They once tried to pull the same girl with “verbatim the same text. It said, ‘Why don’t you swing over and we’ll pop open a bottle of vino on the deck’. We’d been hanging out and drinking a lot, so we must have started sharing a vernacular.”

Segel is godfather to O’Dowd’s first son Art, three, brother of one-year-old Valentine, and is a regular at the O’Porter’s weekly Sunday roasts for 20 in West Hollywood. O’Dowd has little tolerance for British cliches about LA. “People think that everyone in LA lives in Beverly Hills and has surgery. It’s the same as when Americans talk about the British as if everybody knows the Queen.”

He’s currently in pre-production for Hornby’s State of the Union, a TV series co-starring Rosamund Pike, following a couple in marriage counselling.

He was reminded of the salad days of his own marriage while unpacking boxes at their new London home. “We found some tea towels printed with a picture of us dressed as bridezillas for Halloween, and Paul Newman’s saying, ‘Keep the arguments clean and the sex dirty’. Now everything else is dirty.” Perhaps, despite two kids, Hollywood stardom and twinkling charm, O’Dowd is discovering you can’t have everything.

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'I always felt like I was the funny friend of girls that I fancied' - Chris O'Dowd reflects his teen years

Dawn O’Porter and Chris O’Dowd attend the SAG-AFTRA Foundation Patron of the Artists Awards 2017 at the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts on November 9, 2017 in Beverly Hills, California. (Photo by Matt Winkelmeyer/Getty Images for SAG-AFTRA Foundation ) Dawn O’Porter (L) and husband Chris O’Dowd attend the red carpet premiere of EPIX original series “Get Shorty” at Pacfic Design Center on August 10, 2017 in West Hollywood, California. (Photo by David Livingston/Getty Images) Presenter Dawn Porter and fiance Actor Chris O’Dowd attend Fashion Kicks in aid of Macmillan Cancer Support, Beechwood Cancer Care Centre Stockport and the Chefs Adopt a School Project at Lancashire County Cricket Club on May 1, 2012 in Manchester, England. (Photo by Shirlaine Forrest/WireImage) Actor Chris O’Dowd and wife Dawn Porter attend “The Sapphires” after party during the 2012 Toronto International Film Festival at The Brandt House on September 9, 2012 in Toronto, Canada. (Photo by Todd Oren/Getty Images for Weinstein) Chris O’Dowd and Dawn Porter attend the Elle Style Awards at The Savoy Hotel on February 11, 2013 in London, England. (Photo by Mike Marsland/WireImage) Chris O’Dowd attends the “Juliet, Naked” New York Premiere at Metrograph on August 14, 2018 in New York City. (Photo by Nicholas Hunt/Getty Images) Chris O’Dowd in Get Shorty Actors Chris O’Dowd, Rose Byrne and Ethan Hawke attend the “Juliet, Naked” New York Premiere at Metrograph on August 14, 2018 in New York City. (Photo by Nicholas Hunt/Getty Images) Chris O’Dowd with his wife Dawn O’Porter Chris O’Dowd and Dawn O’Porter attend the launch party for The Pool, a unique multi-media platform for busy women co-founded by renowned editor and journalist Sam Baker and broadcaster Lauren Laverne, on April 23, 2015 in London, England. www.the-pool.com (Photo by Samir Hussein/Getty Images for The Pool)

‘I always felt like I was the funny friend of girls that I fancied’ – Chris O’Dowd reflects his teen years

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Chris O’Dowd ambles into a café to meet me a week before he turns 39.

https://www.independent.ie/entertainment/movies/i-always-felt-like-i-was-the-funny-friend-of-girls-that-i-fancied-chris-odowd-reflects-his-teen-years-37518598.html

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Chris O’Dowd ambles into a café to meet me a week before he turns 39.

Read more: Review: Chris O’Dowd is pricelessly funny from start to finish in ‘Juliet, Naked’

By 13, he was already helping raise his 17-year-old sister’s baby. “I always felt like I was the funny friend of girls that I fancied. I found a position of comfort in that.”

Read more: Dawn O’Porter says she was too proud to come home after her US series was dropped

Chris O’Dowd in Get Shorty

He’s currently in pre-production for Hornby’s State of the Union, a TV series co-starring Rosamund Pike, following a couple in marriage counselling.

Juliet, Naked is currently showing

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Source: https://www.independent.ie/entertainment/movies/i-always-felt-like-i-was-the-funny-friend-of-girls-that-i-fancied-chris-odowd-reflects-his-teen-years-37518598.html

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