Jim's account of their ease of mutual silence; Mario worked crew without pressure

texture · JOI's later career; reported via Joelle

• When: Across Mario's childhood and JOI's later career; Jim's remark reported at the pre-Subsidized introductory dinner era.
• What: Jim told Joelle he and Mario were easy with each other only because Mario had been "too damaged and arrested even to speak to until he was six," so the two grew comfortable in mutual silence; Mario's genuine interest in lenses and film — unrelated to any need to please — was something real to share, and even when Mario worked crew on Jim's later Work it carried none of the interact-or-bond pressure tennis had with Orin and Hal.