“At FX, they didn’t get Earn and Van at all,” Glover told me. Earn and Van have a daughter and they sleep together off and on, but they are not precisely a couple. Van, who speaks German for reasons we never learn, is excited Earn, who inclines toward watchful truculence, is not. Chris Rock told me, “ ‘Atlanta’ is the best show on TV, period.” In this episode, from the second season (which débuts this Thursday, on FX), Glover and Beetz’s characters, Earnest (Earn) Marks and Vanessa (Van) Keifer, are driving north from Atlanta in Van’s old Sentra to a German festival called Fastnacht.
Glover is the thirty-four-year-old creator, head writer, occasional director, and star of “Atlanta,” the black comedy about black life-three men and a woman going nowhere much, and beginning to realize it-that in its first season won two Golden Globes, two Emmys, and nearly universal admiration. Smoking in the car like high school.” He passed the joint to his co-star Zazie Beetz, who inhaled companionably as Glover nodded along to the rhythm of the door-alarm beeps. “But it actually makes me feel kind of high. “This isn’t real,” Glover said-his joint was a prop, filled with clover and marshmallow leaves. On this crisp October morning, the car was parked beside Gun Club Road in northwest Atlanta, a woodsy region where a few shacks and a cemetery were all that gestured toward urban life.
In the scene he’d just finished, for the show “Atlanta,” he’d jammed on the brakes to avoid a wild boar in the road, an apparition that made him wonder just how high he was.
To hear more feature stories, download the Audm app for your iPhone.ĭonald Glover sat behind the wheel of the Nissan Sentra, his door ajar, and lit a joint.
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