Kieran Culkin Begs Claire Danes to ‘Stop Making Me Cry So Much’ as They Discuss ‘Fleishman,’ ‘Succession’ Creator’s Season 5 Pitch and More
variety.comKieran Culkin and Claire Danes worked together on Burr Steers’ 2002 indie “Igby Goes Down,” in which Culkin played the angst-ridden 17-year-old title character to Danes’ slightly older Manhattan socialite Sookie Sapperstein.
All these years later, Danes is visibly pregnant, and they chat like old pals about the difficulty of naming her third child with Hugh Dancy. “‘Cyrus,’ we came to pretty readily. ‘Rowan,’ we had to fight harder for.
This one is impossible,” she says. “I realized the movie you and I did together is over half of our lives ago,” Culkin says. “It’s very nice to see you again,” Danes replies wryly, “in our midlives.” But the two actors have serious business to discuss, with Culkin convincingly telling Danes that her show “Fleishman Is in Trouble” — particularly her portrayal of Rachel — “helped my marriage.” In Taffy Brodesser-Akner’s limited series, Danes’ Rachel Fleishman appears to be the careerist ex-wife of Toby Fleishman (Jesse Eisenberg), with whom she has ditched their kids.
But that’s just how it seems until the show’s perspective shifts in its devastating seventh episode, when you see a version of the same story from Rachel’s point of view.
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