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Maltin on Movies

Kyra Sedgwick

Maltin on Movies

Leonard Maltin

Comedy, Jessie, Leonard, On, Tv & Film, Maltin, Movies

4.2662 Ratings

🗓️ 31 March 2023

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

Her first acting gig was on a soap opera. Kyra Sedgwick went onto costar with Tom Cruise in Born on the Fourth of July and amass an impressive list of credits before landing the starring role in The Closer, which earned her an Emmy award and a kazillion fans. In the midst of this she also raised two children with her husband, Kevin Bacon. She has most recently turned her hand to directing, first on TV (with episodes of Ray Donovan and Grace and Frankie, among others) and now a feature film called Space Oddity that opens today in select theaters and is also available on VOD. Leonard and Jessie enjoyed reviewing highlights of career and hearing interesting stories about everyone from Gena Rowlands to Paul Newman.

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Hi everybody, I'm Leonard Malton. And I'm Jesse Malton. We're listening to Malton on

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movies and our guest today is no stranger to any of you. She's been acting for a long time and doing wonderful work on

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screen, and now she is directing as well. Welcome, Kira Sedgwick. Hello. Hello. Thank you so much.

1:21.1

And you have a new movie called Space Oddity. I love that play on words.

1:34.4

It puts you in the same paragraph as Stanley Kubrick, which... Oh, yeah. That's great.

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Incidentally, in the year 2023, a film was made called Space Oddity, which, you know,

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this will always be part of the

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chronicle of history. I love it. Yes, please. More of that. I just want to say, I,

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the best compliment I can give you, you know you're a great actress. That's fine. You know that

1:57.4

part. I got to meet your daughter last year at the Infinite Spirit Awards, and she might be one of the nicest, warmest humans I have ever encountered.

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