My father was not sexually abusing me. I mean, look at me: I got money, I got fame, I got a beautiful girlfriend and a beautiful house and beautiful animals. It took me a long time to get to that place, and I had to have that conversation with myself and go, like, Honestly, Mack? I want for nothing and need for even less. Back to the warm and familiar womb of Carlitos. Last night after the photo shoot, at a. She feeds him, too.
When he did wake up, around , he ate a big hunk of garlic rosemary bread she had made. Last year, she starred in the movie Secret Obsession , which was streamed by 40 million viewers, making it one of the top ten most-watched Netflix originals. She also costarred in Changeland , which is how they got together. They have two cats—Apples and Dude—and a fish named Cinnamon. They have a Shiba Inu, Panda.
And they have a bird, a blue-headed pionus, a relatively quiet species of parrot, that was named Nacho when Andy Richter had it for ten years but that Mack calls Macho.
He loves The Venture Bros. Mack has certain phrases he says. The movie Saved! Mack also spends about three days a week on Bunny Ears, which he started in late It now employs five full-time staffers as well as twenty-five regular freelancers. They create daily content, plus a weekly podcast, merchandise, and a video channel.
He presides over editorial meetings, green-lighting ideas. He crafts headlines for stories. He cracks himself up.
His writers crack him up. He writes about professional wrestling, one of his favorite pastimes. Mack has recorded about a hundred episodes of his podcast. Yeah, but why the hell not? Let me talk. Otherwise, Mack waters the plants in the backyard and feeds all the animals.
He paints. He writes ideas in notebooks piled high. Home is where Mack is these days. With each other, doing whatever. And that to me is an incredibly sexy quality.
She keeps a notebook by her bedside, an old Moleskine that he has drawn in and customized. She writes his one-liners in it, stuff he says in the middle of the night that cracks her up. Brenda works steadily. She travels. She hustles. For Mack? A home. Mack worried that when they started dating, Brenda might have thought he was still in that world—touring with a weird band, hopping into cars with strangers, playing handball in his apartment late at night.
He is not that person anymore, of course. At night, he holds Brenda in their bed, in the fluffy comforters and matching pillows she picked out, their fluffy cats lolling around, legs hanging off the bed, purring.
At Carlitos, the flesh of the branzino is picked apart, white flecks amid shards of bones, the eyes staring up at Mack. Across the table, torn rib-eye in a slick of oil and butter. Wineglasses with oily lip marks around the rims.
The lights are low now, the street dark outside. We were talking about Saved! Bobs his head a little, swallows. You too. Go to sleep. Mack sits back, looks around the restaurant. Takes a slug of wine. When he talks again, his tone is Hey, you know, what are ya gonna do? So yeah. Some silence hangs. The accordion player stares with a quiet intensity at his instrument as the music fills the air with some kind of mood, like the sadness of carnivals.
When he first started dating Brenda, the feeling that it was too good to be true almost overwhelmed him, almost overwhelmed their very relationship. He was, he says, waiting for the other shoe to drop. John Hughes was special to Mack. Mack was physically tired, missed home, and felt uninspired by the movie he was in.
A couple days later, Hughes called him to ask: Are you all right? It hit Mack even then, as a child: It was the first time anyone had ever asked him that. In a professional capacity—whether he was all right. It was the last time he and Hughes ever spoke. A month before Hughes died, in , Michael Jackson died after being given an overdose of medication.
Jackson got in touch with Mack after Home Alone, and suddenly they were hanging out. His parents neither encouraged nor discouraged the friendship. So, at twenty-two years older than Mack, living in a place called Neverland, he felt the same age, in a way. Mack and Jackson used to prank-call people. How big are your refrigerators? Mack was twenty-four. Michael was forty-six.
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