When we first met in elementary school as kids, he never smiled or laughed. I just thought he didn’t like me. But I eventually realized that most times, people don’t smile because they’re happy, or laugh because they think something’s funny. They do it because they want someone else to like them, or because they don’t know what to say, or because they’re nervous, or because they’re being polite. Oliver James—he’s just too honest with himself to hide behind a smile that isn’t real.