Lola Kirke Claps Back to ‘Gemini’ Review in The New Yorker: ‘Maybe a Push Up Bra’ Would Help?

Lola Kirke is unhappy with Anthony Lane’s review of “Gemini” for the New Yorker, but it isn’t because he didn’t like her performance in the mystery/thriller directed by Aaron Katz. Rather, it’s due to a passage in which Lane comments on the appearance of Kirke’s character, calling it “hardly flattering.”

“Dear Anthony Lane, my costume was no oversight, it was intentional — however the desired effect was not to make me appear unsightly — rather, it was show you that a woman is powerful and beautiful in the big jeans and baggy gray tops you so abhor,” Kirke writes on Instagram.

The offending excerpt refers to Kirke’s character’s “big jeans,” “baggy gray top,” and “the haircut from hell — brown bangs cut straight across, as if by a six-year-old with blunt scissors.” (Lane seems to be a fan of Kirke herself, writing that the actress “requires no disguise; she is sphinxlike enough as it is.”)

“I have learned to take the opinions of others — particularly those belonging to the media — with a few thousand grains of salt,” Kirke goes on. “Still I can’t help but feel disappointed when a publication like @newyorkermag allows such glib commentary about women’s appearances to be published. In this heated moment of vibrant discussion surrounding women’s bodies, liberal journalism needs to be adding an entirely different voice to this conversation.”

Read Kirke’s full response below.

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