Safe Spaces (aka After Class)
Written and directed by Daniel Schechter
Starring Justin Long, Kate Berlant, Lynn Cohen, Fran Drescher, Becky Ann Baker and Richard Schiff
Running time: 1 hour and 33 minutes
Unrated: contains language and sexual situations
by Audrey Callerstrom
How wonderful is Justin Long? I don’t know if we even deserve him.
He donates all of the proceeds from his Cameo to charity. He lives with his brother. On his Instagram stories, he’s often seen providing voices for animals (turtles, deer, a chamaeleon). When he had long quarantine hair and a mustache, he created a character called “Emo Teen” that cracks me up. There’s whatever he’s doing here. He knows his level of fame and embraces it. He doesn’t saturate his social media with sponsored posts. He just hangs out with his brother, does a podcast and observes the miracles of turtle birth. A friend of mine once described him as “Keanu Reeves’s goofball cousin,” and I think that’s pretty apt.
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