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‘The Normal Heart’ Star Ellen Barkin Pays Tribute to Larry Kramer (EXCLUSIVE)
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variety.comBy Jazz Tangcay Artisans Editor “Larry Kramer changed my core,” a tearful Ellen Barkin says as she remembers the late AIDS activist and writer.
Barkin made her Broadway debut playing Dr. Emma Brookner, a wheelchair-bound doctor-turned-crusader in the early days of the AIDS epidemic in New York, in Kramer’s “The Normal Heart,” would win the Best Featured Actress award at the Tonys in 2011.
She called Kramer’s death “a big loss.” Barkin credits him for changing her, after calling herself a cynic and someone who didn’t believe in change. “I was very entrenched in my thinking until I met Larry,” she said.
Kramer, who wrote the play, could often be spotted at New York’s Golden Theater three to four times a week. “He would climb those steep
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