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    On 'Succession,' Gerri calls the shots. J. Smith-Cameron knows the feeling

    NEW YORK — At the Carlyle hotel, a pair of Upper East Side doyennes are discussing their country homes between mincing bites of their $30 salads. A few feet away, J. Smith-Cameron is talking about slime puppies. "I made up slime puppy," says the actor, in a crisp white blouse and polished blond bob. "I'm proud of slime puppy. It's my contribution to American literature." In HBO's caustic, ...
    by Meredith Blake, Los Angeles Times Oct 15, 2021 6 minutes

    NEW YORK — At the Carlyle hotel, a pair of Upper East Side doyennes are discussing their country homes between mincing bites of their $30 salads.

    A few feet away, J. Smith-Cameron is talking about slime puppies.

    "I made up slime puppy," says the actor, in a crisp white blouse and polished blond bob. "I'm proud of slime puppy. It's my contribution to American literature."

    In HBO's caustic, Emmy-winning drama "Succession," which returns for its long-delayed third season Sunday, Smith-Cameron stars as Gerri Kellman, general counsel to Waystar Royco, the media and entertainment conglomerate run by the rapacious Roy family.

    Her character has grown into something of a fan favorite, thanks in part to a sordid entanglement with her much younger colleague, Roman Roy (Kieran Culkin), who is also the youngest son of Waystar's fearsome founder, Logan Roy (Brian Cox).

    When a late-night call unexpectedly turned into a kinky phone-sex session last season, Gerri purred degrading insults at Roman. These included "slime puppy," a strangely evocative epithet that has been embraced by the internet's many Gerri-Roman shippers — and one that

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