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...then there was the enormity of Meryl Streep. "My first day with Meryl Streep was a pretty horrible day," says Kirk. "Mike would give me instructions even when I was off-camera because I was so afraid to engage with her. I was like, 'You just do your Meryl Streep thing, and I'll be over here...
...mostly in 1985 and 1986 and adapted by Tony Kushner from his pair of Tony-and Pulitzer-prizewinning plays, Angels is equal parts domestic drama, agitprop and Scripture. It follows two New York City couples: Prior Walter (Justin Kirk), who is sick with AIDS, and his lover Louis Ironson (Ben Shenkman), who abandons Prior, unable to cope with his illness; and Joe and Harper Pitt (Patrick Wilson and Mary-Louise Parker), a closeted gay Mormon lawyer and his disturbed, pill-popping wife. Around them orbit historical and mythological figures: Roy Cohn (Al Pacino), the diabolical former aide to Senator Joseph...
Really, though, Angels belongs to its less well-known stars. Kirk (see sidebar) is heartbreaking but fierce as he rages against the dying of the light, the fecklessness of his lover and the implacability of the angel's demands. And Jeffrey Wright--re-creating his Tony-winning roles as Belize, a Hispanic African-American transvestite, and Mr. Lies, a phantasm of Harper's drug reveries--is a model of nuance in parts that could have been mere sounding boards for Angels' agonized white folks...
...Justin Kirk, who plays brokenhearted AIDS sufferer Prior Walter on HBO's Angels in America, has the kind of impossible good looks that bad-TV actors are made of. And while he has done some bad TV--he played Barto Zane for two years on the WB's forgettable Jack & Jill--in reality, Kirk, 34, is an accomplished stage actor. He did his first play at 7 (Brecht, no less) and has since racked up accolades that include an Obie for playing the blind man in Terrence McNally's Love! Valour! Compassion!--"the other gay play of the '90s," says...
...buzz caught the attention of Angels' director, Mike Nichols, who invited Kirk to audition for the role of Prior. But that couldn't stave off his self-doubt when confronted with the enormity of Angels, which Kirk calls "the play for my generation of New York theater guys...