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        <title><![CDATA[‘Mandalorian,’ ‘Come From Away’ stars dish about quarantining with their dog]]></title>
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        <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>When the fatigue first hit, Chad Kimball says, he figured it was the result of doing eight shows a week of Broadway&#8217;s &#8220;Come From Away.&#8221; But the exhaustion persisted. After he was tested, he learned he had <strong>COVID-19</strong>.</p><p>&#8220;It came in waves,&#8221; he tells The Post. &#8220;Two days after I felt better, it came roaring back. It felt different than anything I had before, especially when I lost my sense of smell.&#8221;</p><p>Now, nearly four weeks since he first became sick, he&#8217;s fully recovered and investigating how to donate blood plasma once it&#8217;s safe to do so. For now, he&#8217;s quarantined in his Upper West Side apartment with his wife, Emily Swallow of <strong>&#8220;The Mandalorian,&#8221;</strong> the &#8220;Star Wars&#8221;-inspired TV series. &#8220;She met <strong>Baby Yoda</strong> before any of us knew there<em> was</em> a Baby Yoda,&#8221; he says, proudly.</p><p>Here&#8217;s how they and their Boston terrier mix, Norma Jean, are spending their newly together time.</p><h2><strong>New favorite hangout?</strong></h2><p>The corner of our sectional couch. My mother-in-law got me a <strong>weighted blanket</strong> — you know, the kind they put on you at the doctor&#8217;s office? They&#8217;re for people who have anxiety problems, so that&#8217;s perfect. It lays on you and makes you feel secure.</p><h2><strong>Hobbies?</strong></h2><p>Reading! I have about 10 books on my nightstand and have gotten into a steady stream. The one I&#8217;m reading now is &#8220;<strong>The Hiding Place</strong>,&#8221; about a Christian Dutch family who hid their Jewish friends from the Nazis during World War II. Reading that story now really puts things in perspective.</p><p>My wife and I have always wanted to produce something together, so we started to make little comic sketch videos with our dog. I film them on my iPhone. I gave my wife a piano after we got married and we&#8217;re getting more attuned — no pun intended! — to singing together.</p><figure id="attachment_15548973"  class="wp-caption aligncenter"><strong><noscript><img data- data-src="/uploads/2020/04/chad-kimball-inside.jpg" class="lazyload" src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==" /><noscript><img  data-src="/uploads/2020/04/chad-kimball-inside.jpg" /></noscript></noscript><img class="lazyload" src='data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns=%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22%20viewBox=%220%200%20210%20140%22%3E%3C/svg%3E' data- data-src="/uploads/2020/04/chad-kimball-inside.jpg" /></strong><figcaption class="wp-caption-text"><span>Emily Swallow and Chad Kimball at home with Norma Jean.</span><span class="credit">Courtesy of Chad Kimball</span></figcaption></figure><h2><strong>Who&#8217;s cooking?</strong></h2><p>We both are. I didn&#8217;t like to cook, and now I realize I like to do it when it&#8217;s not just for myself. We&#8217;ve never really eaten dinner together before, because I eat after the show and she likes to eat early. So we&#8217;re actually having dinner together, which has been a wonderful silver lining.</p><h2><strong>Best meal so far (homemade)</strong></h2><p>On Easter, my wife made a rosemary-rubbed pork roast. It was phenomenal.</p><h2><strong>Go-to takeout?</strong></h2><p>It&#8217;s usually Mexican. A lot of the little mom-and-pop places we like are closed, so we&#8217;ve been ordering from <strong>Playa Betty&#8217;s</strong>, a kind of Mexican beach cuisine with a la carte tacos.</p><h2><strong>Best non-food deliveries?</strong></h2><p>Our dog is very good at jumping fences to chase squirrels, so we got her a small agility course for her to run around in. And I was really excited about getting this vacuum cleaner attachment for our drawers. It sucks just enough to get the dust, but doesn&#8217;t disrupt everything else. Yeah, I know. Pretty nerdy.</p><h2><strong>What are you watching?</strong></h2><p>The new season of &#8220;<strong>Ozark</strong>.&#8221; The whole beauty of the series is that almost every second, you&#8217;re on pins and needles.</p><h2><strong>And what are you listening to?</strong></h2><p>She loves <strong>[Dmitri] Shostakovich</strong>. I was always bored with classical music as a kid, but now, the intricacy of the music and the stories it tells — it&#8217;s really dynamic. We have Spotify, which is a dream: You hear music you&#8217;d never think you&#8217;d listen to.</p><h2><strong>How do you stay in touch with your &#8220;CFA&#8221; castmates?</strong></h2><p>I think the day we shut down, we started a cast text thread. There are 20 some people on it, and we wish each other happy birthday and sometimes just good night. And it&#8217;s funny, too. Whenever one of us gets worried, we raise each other&#8217;s spirits.</p>]]></content:encoded>
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