~ I'm sorry. I can't. Don't hate me. ~ Ron Livingston being our favorite Berger ?????????????????? #Sundance pic.twitter.com/kEEQpJIfDV
? Charlotte Palermino (@charlotteparler) January 25, 2015Granted, no breakups ever "go well," but when Ron Livingston Jack Berger famously broke up with Sarah Jessica Parker on a post-it note, breakups everywhere reached a new low.
As is expected, Carrie knocked over a vase out of pure rage when she found the note after supposedly having worked things out with Berger the night before. She sadly learned that all was not well, and his famous, "I'm sorry. I can't. Don't hate me," note will live on in infamy.
Every fan who watched the show will forever associate the writer with his 7-worded "letter," but Livingston is still probably trying to move on from that poor decision. At the Sundance Film Festival, however, he couldn't escape his past. Cosmopolitan magazine got a hold of the actor while he was supporting his project The End of the Tour, which also stars Jason Segel as Infinite Jest author David Foster Wallace. Livingston plays his editor.
The magazine asked Livingston for a photo opp, and instead of snapping a pic of the actor, they requested he recreate his breakup post-it note. Even though it has been years since that fateful episode aired, Livingston wrote it without hesitating, proving he, too, never forgot what became of Berger and Carrie's fate.
Although he doesn't look exactly pleased to be doing it, we can't really feel sorry for him because we're reliving Carrie's rage/horror/anguish all over again. So really, he should be apologizing to us.