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Greg Kinnear
Newsweek US
|July 11, 2025
A SAMPLING OF NEWSWEEK'S PARTING SHOT PODCAST
LATELY, GREG KINNEAR IS JUST TRYING TO keep his head on straight due to his embarrassment of riches, from Smoke on Apple TV+ and the film Off the Grid. “You kind of have to shuffle around the bottom of your proverbial briefcase to pull up this old project. Smoke, we did it a year ago, Off the Grid, we did last year. So there’s always a little bit of, ‘Who the hell did I play?’” For the arson crime thriller Smoke, Kinnear teamed up with Taron Egerton and Dennis Lehane. “Very CGI light on this. It was real fire. When we were playing with it, we were playing with the real thing.” And in
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