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Lola Kirke Tells Us She’s Not Like Other Kirkes
But she is still a Kirke.
While most young people may have to fight tooth and nail to justify pursuing a career in the arts — writing, singing, acting — Kirke grew up in a bohemian environment in which that was expected. Like a monster, this need mostly came out at night … Throughout elementary school, my bedroom door would creak open, revealing the girl who wouldn’t sit next to me on the subway tucking herself into the other side of my bed.” More traumatic than her parents’ separation or child acting attempts was Jemima’s overdose, because of both her sister’s suffering and what it emphasized about her family’s priorities. Still, Wild West Village lacks the expected gossip of a celebrity memoir, though one particular anecdote about Noah Baumbach on the set of Mistress America lingers in which the director said her skin was so bad it looked like she’d “put a pizza” on her face.
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