Here, Kirke wears an Emporio Armani jumpsuit Bulgari earrings (from $3,250), bracelets (from $7,150), and ring ($3,150). The actress, who plays real estate scion Regan Hamilton-Sweeney, was shot on location at Hotel Barrière Fouquet’s New York. Jemima Kirke stars in the new Apple TV+ murder mystery series City on Fire, which premieres May 12. When she mentions taking her Mercedes SUV to the dealership to be serviced, it’s clear Kirke has graduated from the insouciant itinerant in wide brim hats whom she played for six seasons. There may once have been some truth to that, but while Jessa refused to grow up, reveling in her own messiness, a decade later Kirke has managed to maintain a free-spirited, no-fucks-given élan while evolving with the shifting roles of adulthood and maternal responsibility. Perhaps more than most actors, Kirke has had her most famous character projected onto her, with Girls fans assuming that Jemima and Jessa are indistinguishable.
“Maybe it's my age that I’m sort of in between right now,” she says. “Caravaggio-esque.” After a busy pandemic during which she first starred as a deliciously vindictive high school principal on Sex Education, then as the glamorous Bohemian writer and cuckolded wife Melissa in Hulu’s adaptation of Sally Rooney’s Conversations with Friends, and, finally, City on Fire, which was shot last summer, Kirke has found herself in a lay period. She has just dropped her kids off at school and will soon head to her painting studio, where the Rhode Island School of Design graduate is working on a series of portraits of people in the dark. Kirke is sitting in a coffee shop on Van Brunt Street in Red Hook, near where she lives with her two children (with ex-husband Michael Mosberg), 12-year-old Rafaella and 10-year-old Memphis. “I’m probably a Republican.” She pushes a crumb of pesto croissant from her lip into her mouth, then mutters under her breath, “So weird.” The 38-year-old actor, best known for playing the maddeningly devil-may-care Jessa on Girls, is talking about Regan Hamilton-Sweeney, the Armani-clad scion of a fractured Manhattan real estate dynasty on City on Fire, a Gotham neo-noir based on Garth Risk Hallberg’s sprawling novel of the same name that premieres May 12 on Apple TV+.
Jemima Kirke speaks about the superficial dissonance between her latest role and previous ones with equal parts awe and horror.
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