Lev is not going to throw the interviewer a bone! If he throws the interviewer a bone, there might be more interviews!

"In addition to Yenta, you do a lot of charitable work through the Aarons Foundation. In the wake of you coming out, can we expect the Aarons Foundation to get more involved in LGBT causes?"

"No."

"There's other areas where the foundation can make more of a difference," he says, in lieu of explaining that neither of them wants to touch politics with a ten-foot pole. Saying publicly that you don't want to touch politics is in fact touching politics. 

Is this an opportunity to talk about what the Aarons Foundation is up to? It sounds like an opportunity to talk about what the Aarons Foundation is up to!

The journalist makes several attempts to interrupt Lev and then finally, realizing that Sasha was her only opportunity to get remotely usable quotes, turns to Sasha and says, "I understand that you're transgender. Can you tell me some more about that?"

"I'd be happy to talk about it, sure, but I'm not sure what more there is to say." 

"Well, when did you first realize you were transgender?"

"I was… fifteen? I'd been quote-unquote ""pretending to be a guy on the internet"" for a couple of years by that point, but fifteen was when I realized that actually I wanted Alexander to be my real name too." 

"Did your parents respond well to you coming out?"

"I didn't tell them until I was about to go off to college, and let's just say they're not invited to the wedding and leave it at that." 

The interviewer is not here to tell stories about people's tragic pasts without their consent! That is why Claire picked her. 

"And what about you, Lev? When did you come out?"

"No comment."

He reaches out and takes Lev's hand again. "Any other questions?" 

The journalist is trapped between the Scylla of writing an article with nothing but this and the Charybdis of trying to extract more information from Lev.

"No. No more questions."

"Alright! We'll be out of your way, then, thank you!" 

The process of having his picture taken for the article is made somewhat less agonizing because he can stare at Sasha the entire time.

Lev is adorable and Sasha adores him and this is going to be very obvious in the photo. 

"I am never ever ever ever doing an interview again. I am going to send you to do all my interviews, you did great."

"I had my customer service face on the whole time, you get used to the general category of thing that interviews are." 

"I have worked a customer service job in my life!"

Sasha kisses him. "That sounds like your personal hell and I'm so sorry." 

"It was awful! Fast food workers should be billionaires and I should make minimum wage honestly."

"That would do interesting things to the inflation rate." 

"Yeah. And then I'd be broke and have to get a second job as a psychologist or a rabbi."