Justin Kirk reflects on everything from ‘Angels in America’ to ‘Weeds’ to his role as the Succession universe’s mercurial maybe-president-elect.
, like a well-worn glove. This is not to say Kirk has made a habit of playing bad guys . He’s the kind of charismatic, reactive actor who knows how to carve out distinctive characters. Just last month on HBO, he shined in a more melancholy key on, as the closeted D.A. Hamilton Burger, a canonical figure in that legal franchise given a snappy new spin by the reboot. Kirk, not one to fade into the background, stands out in both shows.
Another way of looking at this spring of top-shelf showcases? A chance for Kirk to lean in, maybe, to the uniquely impressive career he’s built over decades, diversified between lead and supporting parts, comedies and dramas, stage and screen, popular and not. Nothing ever quite happened at once for him; the accumulation of credits has been unusually steady. After Kirk expresses that concern about overexposure, I suggest it’s one problem he’s never dealt with before. He laughs before nodding.
But he wasn’t precious about sticking to the stage; money was always tight, New York always a grind, and he wanted to try Hollywood. He’d fly out west for pilot season only to realize he was in a foreign land. On his first trip, he nabbed a guest part on the, but was fired after his first day. “They probably were right to fire me, but it was very traumatic,” he says., a pilot that the now-defunct WB picked up in 1999, and which brought Kirk to LA, where he still lives.
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