March 10, 2025

Photo: Nagi Sakai

Meghann Fahy wants to show me her phone. “It just keeps going!” she says, turning the device around so I can view a Note on her screen that is at least six thumb-scrolls long. It’s a list called “Memoir Titles” that she and her best friends have kept for years, with entries including “Yesterday Was Hell, But I Liked It,” “This Is the Saddest Thing That Has Ever Made Me Laugh,” and “Violently Ambitious.”

That last one sounds like it could be an apt description of the whirlwind few years the actress has had since earning an Emmy nomination for her breakout performance in the Über-popular second season of HBO’s The White Lotus, but Fahy demures. “I wish I could claim ‘violently ambitious,’” she says, settling into the cozy booth opposite me at Brooklyn Public House in Fort Greene and wearing a decidedly laid-back navy cable-knit sweater and jeans. “I think I’d be in a much better place in my career if I was. I’m somebody who’s a bit go-with-the-flow.”

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By Madame Clairevoyant

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