Fitz’s face breaks my heart in the pre-debate scene on the left. Olivia is giving him that tough love he needs, and he knows he needs, but he’s a reopened wound with his overbearing father around. Not only that, but he can hear Olivia’s frustration in her voice, and see it in both her demeanor and written all over her face. And, as we later find out, his every feeling is controlled by the look on her face.
You know that moment in a reality check when it all finally clicks? When all of your defenses have been stripped away? When you realize what’s really going on? All of that is reflected in his face. It’s different to their first meeting when she tells him it looks like he doesn’t screw his wife. His heart wasn’t in it for keeps yet. Now it is, so every syllable is like a tiny knife prick on his heart.
Oh, and where have we seen this ‘Fitz face’ before? The Rose Garden (right).
(gifs via oliviaspope and Calzona)
#GladiatorOvation for writing this!
