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Lola Kirke: ‘I wanted to be this sad white girl with a guitar singing folk songs’
- INTERVIEW: The actor and musician’s new album ‘Lady For Sale’ is a whole lot of fun. Leonie Cooper meets Lola Kirke to talk about why she quit being ‘emo’, Americana icons The Band and being resuced from the music industry mire by Jack White’s record label
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Lola Kirke on Her Music Career, Rejection & Why Drinking Counts As Self-Care
In between mouthfuls of pickled crisps, Lola Kirke talks about the many pressures our culture puts on women. The youngest daughter of British parents (her dad is the rock drummer Simon Kirke) and youngest sister of Domino and Jemima Kirke (a musician and actor respectively) Lola was raised in New York from the age of five, and is the only member of her family with an American accent. Over 30 minutes, Lola talks about everything from period shame to narcissism in the social media age to admirat
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Jemima Kirke on addiction, divorce and life after Girls
A little more than six years ago, Jemima Kirke gamely agreed to take part in the pilot episode for a new television show that her best friend from high school was writing, directing and starring in. Not only was Kirke, then 24, determinedly a painter, not an actress (though she had already appeared, for free, in said friend’s first and award-winning indie feature film, Tiny Furniture), but she had also given birth to her first child, her daughter Rafaella, just six weeks before. The process tu
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Girls star Jemima Kirke: ‘I got divorced and I attribute that to acting’
Girls star Jemima Kirke blames her divorce on her profession — because acting made her look more closely at her own life. The London-born actress recently separated from Michael Mosberg, 40, her husband of seven years. Kirke, 31, told ES Magazine: “I got divorced and I attribute that to acting.
