“It looms large, because it’s the truth.' Luke Kirby on the underlying sadness in playing the role of Lenny Bruce on MrsMaisel
"I always feel like there's a very tender heart behind this dynamic mind," Kirby says of bringing the taboo-breaking comedian to life.’s third season ends on an uncharacteristically melancholic note for a show so buoyant.
“There’s a quote of Lenny’s where he says ‘There are never enough I Love Yous,’ which is just a beautiful sentiment," he says. "The idea that there really is not enough to ever display the size and scope of your feelings. I always feel like there's a very tender heart behind this dynamic mind.”backstage at the Park Avenue Armory on Manhattan’s Upper East Side, where he’s starring in a revival of the 1937 play , an allegorical fable about guilt and culpability in Nazi Germany.
“It’s like he’s a hallucination,” Kirby jokes. “If the writing were less good, they’d give her a brain aneurysm and reveal he was never real.” Instead, Kirby thinks of the character figuratively as “a fairy godmother, or a spirit guide. It really does make more sense to me to think of him in that way. He shows up and anchors things for a second, and then throws a smoke bomb and disappears into whatever ether he goes into.
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