Alexander Hodge Embraces the Art of Play in Peacock’s ‘Grosse Pointe Garden Society’

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The beauty of being part of a weekly television series is, as Alexander Hodge tells it, the morning-after-airing group chat. “We all text each other on Monday after the episodes come out and we send each other nice messages,” Hodge says of his fellow “Grosse Pointe Garden Society” cast members. “It’s interesting when you read the scripts — and we read them months ago — and then we filmed them maybe six weeks ago, and then once the edit comes back, it goes to air, and it’s nice to see the progression and see what work everybody else did.”  “Grosse Pointe Garden Society,” on Peacock, is a murder-mystery drama set in a wealthy Michigan suburb’s gardening society. Hodge stars — alongside AnnaSophia Robb, Aja Naomi King, Ben Rappaport and Melissa Fumero — as Doug, husband to Robb’s Alice.  Hodge burst onto the scene in the Issa Rae-helmed series “Insecure” in 2018, in which he played a love interest of Yvonne Orji’s Molly, who became known as “Asian bae.” In the years that followed, Hodge was continually offered similar love interest roles, which is something he contended with for a number of years. “I would tell my team, ‘I’m ready to not play the love

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