“I just felt like baldness was just another layer to my horrible life.”

Cool-Head Larry

In an interview, Larry David covers all things baldness—transplants, Russian leaders, beards—and reveals the one thing he enjoys about having no hair

By Stuart Heritage

This is all very well and good, but I’m still bald. —Larry David, winning an Emmy in 1993

The only plus of Covid was the ascent of the Zoom interview. When you interview a person over Zoom, the conversation is immediately stripped of all artifice. You’re not in some hotel room buzzing with frazzled publicists. You’re not on your best behavior in a café. You’re just two people at home having a chat. And, from an interviewing standpoint, this means that you get to see glimpses of the person behind the persona. The backdrop they pick. The type of mug they voluntarily buy. A world of tiny details that you otherwise miss.