"But it's fun to be something, have that, and you don't have to be real. It's like, comedians. They go on and they're doing all these jokes. I would be like that if I were more awake"
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Posey is talking about identity the way an actor talks about a costume: not as deceit, but as relief. "It's fun to be something" lands with the casual shrug of someone who has spent a career getting paid to be unreal on purpose. The key twist is that she treats "real" not as a moral ideal but as a requirement you can opt out of, like a dress code. In a culture that fetishizes authenticity, she suggests authenticity is exhausting work.
The comedian comparison sharpens the point. Comics walk onstage and manufacture a self in real time: the crank, the sweetheart, the menace, the truth-teller. The audience knows it's a performance, and still wants it. Posey envies that permission structure. Comedy becomes a model for how to occupy a persona without having to litigate sincerity every minute, how to be "something" without the constant anxiety of being found out.
"I would be like that if I were more awake" is the little dagger. It implies the gap between wanting to perform and having the energy to do it - a self-awareness that reads as burnout, introversion, or the specific fatigue of being observed. It also hints that persona requires alertness: timing, focus, the electrical charge of being on. Coming from Posey, whose public image has long been a mix of quirky magnetism and cultivated distance, the line functions as both confession and critique. The self is a role; the problem is staying conscious enough to play it.
The comedian comparison sharpens the point. Comics walk onstage and manufacture a self in real time: the crank, the sweetheart, the menace, the truth-teller. The audience knows it's a performance, and still wants it. Posey envies that permission structure. Comedy becomes a model for how to occupy a persona without having to litigate sincerity every minute, how to be "something" without the constant anxiety of being found out.
"I would be like that if I were more awake" is the little dagger. It implies the gap between wanting to perform and having the energy to do it - a self-awareness that reads as burnout, introversion, or the specific fatigue of being observed. It also hints that persona requires alertness: timing, focus, the electrical charge of being on. Coming from Posey, whose public image has long been a mix of quirky magnetism and cultivated distance, the line functions as both confession and critique. The self is a role; the problem is staying conscious enough to play it.
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