My Theater World Is Colliding With "Breaking Bad"

OK, this is getting bizarre. The Totah family have been a part of our theater, DMTC, for many years. And JJ Totah has been working with Jesse Plemons, from "Breaking Bad"? Just too strange! Too strange! I will have to get drunk, and consider.

(Oh, by the way, don't let JJ ride a dirt bike, because Jesse can't help himself.)

It won’t be hard to find Totah after his star-making performance last night. The child actor is only featured in two of Other People’s scenes — he plays the flamboyant younger brother of Plemons’s best friend — but he makes the goddamn most of them: Totah waltzes into his first scene casually hitting on the far-older Plemons, then spends his second scene in drag, staging an over-the-top, twerk-filled performance for his bemused family. It’s rare to see such an exuberantly gay kid onscreen, and as Totah described his character afterwards, he delivered the equivalent of a double-snap sermon and brought the house down.