Jemima Kirke Talks Daytime Sex, Polyamory, and Putting Out on the First Date
glamour.comGirls. Her hair was perfect, her character polarizing, her confidence magnetic. A of Kirke in The Wall Street Journal at the time described her this way:“In the first episode, Ms.
Kirke's character, Jessa, is referred to as ‘a vision,’ ‘hauntingly beautiful’ and ‘so hip I could puke.’ By the third episode, she's pulling a stranger into a bar bathroom.But in reality, Ms.
Kirke, as of last year, is a mother.”A mother. A creature somehow both sexless and used! A woman whose adventures are behind her, and servitude ahead.
In actual reality, Kirke’s roles since Girls have all been provocations. Kirke has stepped carefully between darkly funny indie movies and prestige series—she was a seducer of nuns in the 2017 comedy The Little Hours, an unrequited crush in the 2018 miniseries Maniac, a principal determined to prevent teens from accessing sex education in the recent season of Sex Education.
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