What Has Kick Kennedy Said About Her Family?
While Kick hasn’t weighed in on her father’s bid for the Oval Office, she has made the occasional comment over the years about what it’s like living life with the Kennedy surname.
“People ask me, ‘What’s it like to be a Kennedy?'” She told Town and Country in 2012. “Maybe it’s just the temperature of the water, but I’m just like, ‘I have no idea.’ When I see my face or name in the tabloids, I get a knot in my stomach. It’s just not me—it’s reading something that’s not real.”
So when it came to her acting career, fame was never the draw.
“I was born with a sticker—a name—that has made me totally uninterested in the fame factor of success,” she added to the outlet. “I see all my actor friends really going for it in that way because it’s such a big part of the job, but it kind of turns me off. I’m frightened of it, or at least uninterested, unamused.”
So when Antigone came around two years later, she had longterm hopes of what the production would prove. “Hopefully one day people will come see me for something that doesn’t have to do with my last name,” she told the AP. “For me, it’s just two different things. This is a job. That is my life.”
And on the infamous yet alleged Kennedy family curse, which has seen many of her family members to an early grave?
“We’re an ambitious family and there are a lot of us,” Kick noted. “And with a lot of numbers comes some painful things here and there, and also a lot of joyful things.”
