‘Marvelous Mrs. Maisel': Luke Kirby on Finding the Essence of Lenny Bruce

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“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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For Lenny case its the police fault they killed him all they had to was there business even Lenny daughter has said so the police killed my father

Fantastic role, excellent writing and superbly executed by Luke. Definitely my favorite male role of the series. Sorry, Tony Shalhoub.

MaiselTV Will he overdose in Season 4?

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MaiselTV Love this character!

MaiselTV Love him. Love his portrayal of Lenny Brice. ❤️👏

Nice article. Dam shame what heroin has done to the world and to the arts. Not to mention, SpeakerPelosi 's district. That's why it's important to end a tweet with a smile.

YUCK!

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