She wants so badly to be somebody. Good thing her daddy’s a politician and her mommy’s an heiress, it keeps her in the public eye for better or worse. Problem is, she’s a little delusional.
Had a college roommate sort of like that once. Wealthy family, a bit of an oddball even before the mental issues started coming to the fore. They humored him. He was obsessed with Smokey & The Bandit for some reason. Had a beautiful Trans Am just like the one from the movie, the hat, the boots. He’d save up his lithium for a buzz, going into weeks-long funks punctuated by giddy sprees, not getting out of bed other than to pay for pizza delivery or answer a call of nature, pretty disgusting,
I eventually got myself moved out of that dorm room. He disappeared from campus mid-semester after a wild episode, dancing naked on the hall wearing his Smokey hat and boots to “Rock Lobster” by the B-52’s, becoming infuriated when the visiting girls were unimpressed to the point of laughter. He punched a brick wall and shattered his hand.
He’s still being humored, there’s a very bad horror movie he “produced,” about ten years ago. Just another vanity project, an obsession bankrolled by mommy and daddy, to keep him out of worse embarrassments, I suppose.
That’s what I see in Megan McCain.
What a character! His life would make a good dramedy without any trained acting. Maybe your friend thought he looked ‘just like’ Burt Reynolds did at that time. Burt was the King of Cool.