Written by and starring Rogers’s close friend Joel Kim Booster and also costarring Yang, the film represents an emotional milestone for Rogers, who began his career “screaming in basements in New York City,” he says. Along with his scene-stealing turn as Darcy Leeds, Rogers stars as Luke in Searchlight’s upcoming Pride and Prejudice–inspired comedy, Fire Island , which hits Hulu on June 3.
These days Rogers has a lot more to look forward to. Even just getting something in the mail-especially during a time like the pandemic, sometimes it would be all I was looking forward to.” “The thing about retail therapy and why it works is it helps us feel like we’re filling a hole, you know what I mean?” Rogers tells Little Gold Men about QVC culture. “It helps us feel like we’re fulfilling something. Rogers plays Darcy Leeds, a senior associate-not assistant-to the CEO of SVN, a QVC-style home shopping network. On Showtime, he currently costars on Vanessa Bayer’s new series, I Love That for You. A cohost of iHeartRadio’s incredibly popular Las Culturistas podcast with close friend and Saturday Night Live cast member Bowen Yang, Rogers-who arrived with his own microphone already set up-is now taking his talents to multiple kinds of screens. “My setup was already set up, in fact, from this morning,” he admits. Matt Rogers came to Little Gold Men prepared to podcast.
