Rory Kinnear Promotes 3 New Roles as 48-Year-Old Actor Revisits Family Loss and Set Safety
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Updated · The Guardian · Nov 5
Rory Kinnear Promotes 3 New Roles as 48-Year-Old Actor Revisits Family Loss and Set Safety
1 articles · Updated · The Guardian · Nov 5
Summary
Rory Kinnear, 48, is promoting three projects — BBC spy thriller "Honey," film "Onwards and Sideways" and James Graham’s play "The Standard of Living," in which he plays John Maynard Keynes.
Kinnear said the stage role resonates because it asks what makes a good life, a question he links to the deaths of his father Roy Kinnear, who died in 1988 at 54, and his sister Karina, who died in 2020 at 48.
His father’s death during a horse stunt still shapes his career choices: Kinnear said he has pushed back on unsafe filming demands four or five times and argues the industry still cuts corners.
He also tied his family experience to politics, saying Karina’s life with profound disabilities made him acutely aware of how social-care decisions are made elsewhere and why disabled lives are too often undervalued.