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    Daniel Sunjata on the Photo With Michael Jordan He Treasures

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    “Every time I look at it, it makes me feel like I touched greatness and maybe a little rubbed off,” the “High Potential” actor said about picture day with the Chicago Bulls.Daniel Sunjata was nearing the end of the casting process for ABC’s “High Potential” when he was asked to do a chemistry read with the show’s star Kaitlin Olson — by Zoom.“I was like, ‘How can you get a gauge on chemistry between two actors through a computer?,’” he recalled.Turns out he understood the assignment.In “High Potential,” a darkly comic murder procedural that has been renewed for a second season, Sunjata is a detective with the Los Angeles Police Department, and Olson is a janitor with a genius I.Q. who can deduce things the officers can’t.He’s very by-the-book, she’s more of a rule breaker. But it’s hard to argue with the results.“It’s been a fantastic experience,” Sunjata said. “There are many occasions where you enjoy the process of creating something and it doesn’t find an audience. So the fact that the show is also seeing a pretty significant amount of success is very, very gratifying.”In a video call from Los Angeles, Sunjata discussed why he cherishes his baby book, a photo with Michael Jordan and the journal his first agent gave him.These are edited excerpts from the conversation.‘Interstellar’Christopher Nolan is one of the most visionary directors of modern times, and I think this movie is a perfect example why. To me, it was a meditation on the relationship between our conception of love and gravity — of science and spirituality — and where the two things intertwine. There are people that I miss dearly, but when I’m with that feeling of why I miss them, that love almost transcends distance, transcends time.We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and log into your Times account, or subscribe for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber? Log in.Want all of The Times? Subscribe. More

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      ‘The Sex Lives of College Girls,’ Plus 7 Things to Watch on TV this Week

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      Catch up with the group from Essex College, go behind the scenes of Ridley Scott’s new movie and get your Bravo fill.Things in college are heating up.Before Reneé Rapp toured sold-out shows or performed songs from her new album on “Saturday Night Live,” she played Leighton Murray, a mean-girl-turned-softy in “The Sex Lives of College Girls.” The show is returning this week for its third season, but Rapp will be absent from most of it — she renegotiated her contract from a series regular to a guest star. It will continue to follow the roommates Kimberly (Pauline Chalamet), Bela (Amrit Kaur) and Whitney (Alyah Chanelle Scott), who left things on rocky footing at the end of the last season. Available to stream at 9 p.m. on Thursday on Max.From left, Sara Silva, Sarah Catherine Hook and Zac Burgess in “Cruel Intentions.”Jasper Savage/Prime VideoThe 1999 film “Cruel Intentions,” about a stepsibling duo who set their sights on the same girl as a power play, is now getting a modern television reboot. In this show, it is the Vice President’s daughter the stepsiblings are after, and instead of a prep school, it takes place at a college where a hazing scandal moves the plot along. Fitting for “Gossip Girl” rewatch season (a.k.a. fall), this show gives the same high-society cutthroat vibes. Streaming on Thursday on Prime Video.A blast of Bravo.There’s a whiff of designer purchases, mansions and good old fashion screaming in the air — and that can only mean one thing: “The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills” is back on our small screens. Kyle Richards, Dorit Kemsley and the other housewives navigate their friendships with each other but also deal with marital issues and work drama. Tuesday at 8 p.m. on Bravo.Bravo’s longest-running franchise, “The Real Housewives of Orange County,” is wrapping up its three-part reunion this week. And the women have not been holding back — calling for certain castmates to be fired, accusing each other of “throwing venom” and generally squabbling. Thursday at 9 p.m. on Bravo.Though “Housewives” is Bravo’s bread and butter, I also love the network’s stand-alone shows (I am looking at you “Summer House” and “Below Deck.”) This one, “Married to Medicine,” follows women in Atlanta who are either doctors themselves or married to doctors. This season is back with a few new faces, as Dr. Jacqueline Walters takes on the role of mediator. Sunday at 9 p.m. on Bravo.We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and log into your Times account, or subscribe for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber? Log in.Want all of The Times? Subscribe. More

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      In ‘High Potential,’ Kaitlin Olson Gets Smart

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      Earlier this month, the actress Kaitlin Olson was in her Los Angeles kitchen slicing a lemon.“I was really cutting it hard,” she said. “I put 100 percent of my effort into it.”The knife slipped, nearly severing her pinkie, which explained why, on a morning a few days later in Manhattan, Olson, 49, had accessorized her black silk blouse and black pants with a black finger splint. (She also wore an array of diamonds, one the size of a kumquat.) The look was working. A waiter asked if she was in town for fashion week.There are few things that Olson — tall and emphatically blond, with screwball energy — does lightly. As concerns comedy, physical stunts and also apparently cooking, her approach is full contact. On the set of “It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia,” the cheeky FX comedy she has co-starred in for nearly 20 years, she has broken her foot, slashed open her calf and suffered at least one possible concussion. “Definitely worth it,” she said of the scene.This wasn’t her first food-prep injury, and she skipped the emergency room. She didn’t have the time. In addition to “Sunny,” she is a guest actor on the HBO show “Hacks” and the star of a new ABC procedural, “High Potential,” in which she plays a cleaning woman with savant-like tendencies who consults for the police. It premieres on Tuesday.In “High Potential,” Olson’s character cleans the police station … and soon helps the officers solve cases.David Bukach/DisneyWhile it is not Olson’s first series lead (that would be the Fox comedy “The Mick”) or her only chance to flaunt her aptitude for drama (see also: “Hacks”), “High Potential” showcases her dizzy, daffy, sardonic gifts. Which Olson appreciates.We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and log into your Times account, or subscribe for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber? Log in.Want all of The Times? Subscribe. More