Conversations with Friends star Jemima Kirke: ‘I thought, this is marriage written by a 22-year-old’
telegraph.co.ukGirls, HBO’s era-defining comedy-drama about a quartet of female friends rolling around New York in pursuit of purpose, love and, ultimately, themselves.
The show, which was created by Lena Dunham (who also starred in it), ran for six series from 2012 to 2017 and made an undisputed star of Kirke, who previously had only one significant acting credit (a role in Dunham’s acclaimed 2010 film Tiny Furniture).
Not long after Girls debuted, The New Yorker described Kirke as ‘one of the best actresses and stars… on any screen in a very long time’.Five years on from its conclusion, however, Kirke, 36, is tired of being conflated with a character she has long left behind.
Returning home after the final series wrapped was ‘like hitting land’, she explains in her throaty, transatlantic drawl (Kirke was born in London but moved to New York at the age of 10). ‘You just want to cry and fall on the couch,’ she adds. ‘I was ready to move on.’Today, Kirke is deliberately picky about the work she takes on and tends towards projects with a definitive end date.
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