that he’s here, mostly, to talk about. The HBO Max comedy from formerwriters Chris Kelly and Sarah Schneider centers on a Justin Bieber-like YouTube star turned mega-celebrity named Chase Dreams, whose momager becomes famous in her own right.
Segarra, 36, plays Lance, a fashion designer dating Chase’s older sister and manager, Brooke . He serves as the goofy antidote — he thinks it’s still cool to dab — to the show’s blistering roasts of celebrity-worship culture. Segarra is more suave than his onscreen counterpart, but they share the same good nature, especially when it comes to the source material. “I’m a Belieber. I saw [2011 concert film]in theaters,” he says.
On the third season that premieres May 4, Lance finds a new calling as a nurse, having given up fashion design in order to “make a difference” after the pandemic — much to Brooke’s annoyance. She starts a spite-search for a new career “doing good” outside of the industry; in typicalabsurdist fashion she becomes invisible to agents, managers and celebrities now that she’s a normie.
As soon as this interview wraps — and his Bloody Mary is finished — Segarra will fly back to Atlanta, where he’s already shooting the second season of