Actress Jemima Kirke on whether she's in touch with the cast of "Girls" and Sally Rooney's writing

Apr 24, 2022 11:10

Sally Rooney's critically acclaimed novel "Conversations with Friends" has been adapted for a TV miniseries on Hulu, following the adapation of her novel "Normal People." It's set to come out on May 15 ( Read more... )

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miniglik April 24 2022, 18:40:08 UTC
I read this earlier and thought “damn this woman needs PR training.” You don’t have to tell reporters everything you think. (As an unfiltered person, I am glad I am not famous because it would be hard to take my own advice.)

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miniglik April 24 2022, 18:52:18 UTC
Some of the stuff she said about the author of the novel - it’s not bad, but better left unsaid publicly. Implying the writer of the source novel for the thing you’re promoting is too immature to understand the thing you’re promoting is maybe saying too much. The dismissive bit about the novel writer never coming to set (in the article itself). Etc.

I’m just saying I think it could have been done better as a PR interview.

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januarysix April 24 2022, 18:54:25 UTC
yeah I thought it was weird for her to say "this girl is basically too young to really understand marriage"

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januarysix April 24 2022, 18:42:46 UTC
I guess GIRLS happened before intimacy coordinators became a thing but the idea that GIRLS could not be made to day? Has she not seen Euphoria?

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januarysix April 24 2022, 18:52:56 UTC
I have no idea how actors do it. I've been watching bits and pieces of GIRLs recently and there is one scene where Marnie? is getting eaten out and the male actor has his full face in her ass. Like even if she's wearing a thong or some other thin barrier that doesn't show it seems like an overly intimate thing.

call me a prude (I am) but I would not want a co-workers ass in my face or vice versa.

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qween_frostine April 24 2022, 19:42:49 UTC
For some unholy reason, Allison Williams describing the prep that she did for that scene has been burnt into my brain. The vanilla scented lotion, the pad of some kind stuck back there.

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rihaty April 24 2022, 18:43:27 UTC
I saw her post on Instagram annoyance at how the piece was titled so I kind of take some of the editorialization by the author with a grain of salt (like the “curtly” or “wearily” stuff). I never got the impression that the Girls cast was that close outside of Jemima and Lena anyway since they were high school friends even though Alison and Lena had the best chemistry.

I get a lot of what she’s saying, she’s always been blunt.

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miniglik April 24 2022, 18:56:30 UTC
I feel like the interviewer did her a little dirty. I think she also walked Kirke into some traps that someone more savvy with PR could have avoided.

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rihaty April 24 2022, 19:03:32 UTC
Yeah, to go along with what you’re saying in another comment it’s totally understandable for Jemima to not relate to Sally’s writing on marriage, she’s older and has had quite the life experience, but there’s probably a better way to articulate it without sounding dismissive of the source material. Which I don’t think Jemima is, she’s just very direct and as you said not very PR savvy.

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devopet April 24 2022, 20:50:22 UTC
I think those do you still keep on touch questions are always a trap and people expect everyone being lifetine bffs from what is essentially a workplace.

Like I've worked with people for years and would have been considered close after we changed jobs we drifted apart but not because we fell out just life got in the way and proximity is an important part of a relationship. Not everyone ends up lifelong friends and like it isnt gossip when it happens.

As well, these reporters only care about friendships with other actors. If you said yeah the assistant director and I ended up being really close friends the reporter wouldn't give a shit.

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likeanunmadebed April 24 2022, 18:45:07 UTC
"since she got married" - did she marry Alex Cameron? her last marriage ended in 2017

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derbel_mcdillet April 24 2022, 18:47:14 UTC
i'm p sure she meant when lena got married but idk

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likeanunmadebed April 24 2022, 18:48:08 UTC
*suddenly remembers that Lena wedding post with the tinfoil looking dresses(?)*

I see!

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rihaty April 24 2022, 18:48:38 UTC
I thought she meant since Lena got married.

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amelancholyme April 24 2022, 18:46:01 UTC
I like Jemima, but I remember LOLing about how she was offended that Lena Dunham basically based Jessa on her. She is Jessa, just not sociopathic.

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rihaty April 24 2022, 18:51:02 UTC
Season one Jessa was not that awful just troubled, and reading what’s described in the piece as her backstory it’s clear Lena lifted it all from her real life lol. But seasons four and five Jessa is unhinged and sociopathic.

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gumby April 24 2022, 18:57:09 UTC
Lena Dunham and co. also lifted so much from Audrey Gelman's life too for Marnie's character. At the time, I was like, "they still can't be friends after that...right? what's going on?"

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rihaty April 24 2022, 19:00:56 UTC
Omg I forgot about that, and then Lena makes fun of the Wing in an episode of Girls. Definitely don’t think Audrey and Lena are still friends lol.

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