Veep ended its run on HBO greater than 5 years in the past, however its satirical tackle fashionable American politics feels as well timed as ever. Julia Louis-Dreyfus, who earned a number of Primetime Emmy Awards for her showstopping efficiency because the present’s title character, has even stated that her deliciously controversial character shares traits with Donald Trump. Alongside the notorious Selina Meyer for nearly all seven seasons was her anxiety-stricken Chief of Workers Amy Brookheimer, performed to perfection by Anna Chlumsky. Years after incomes child-star standing for her acclaimed flip in My Woman (1991), Chlumsky proved she’s nonetheless a expertise to look at along with her Emmy-nominated efficiency on Veep — and it hasn’t stopped there.
Along with main the hit Netflix collection Inventing Anna (2022), Chlumsky can now be noticed in a number of standout episodes of the gritty new collection Smoke on Apple TV+. MovieWeb just lately caught up with Chlumsky whereas she was selling Smoke, and he or she additionally weighed in on right this moment’s political local weather — in addition to how Amy from Veep may react throughout sure standout press conferences held by high-profile political figures. “Ever since doing that present, I’ve had rather more of a eager eye to whomever is on the aspect of whomever is speaking,” she advised MovieWeb. “It is like, who’re these individuals who, when that individual says that, who’s on their telephone, going, ‘Oh no! Why? What can we do? Was that the optics?’ Who’s placing out fires?”
Drawing a parallel to her fire-centric new collection, Chlumsky continued, “After I discovered that [Veep] position, that was the job: placing out fires… The chief of employees for [former U.S. Sen.] Barbara Boxer was my, like, level individual. She was like, ‘Hear, I am just about a fireman, and I am just about simply placing out fires. So I suppose it wasn’t that vast of a leap [to my Smoke character].”
“Heaps of Training”
Smoke
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June 26, 2025
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Apple TV+
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Kari Skogland
From placing out fires on Veep to investigating criminally sparked fires on Smoke, Chlumsky continues to develop her repertoire on the efficiency entrance. Her gripping episodes within the collection see her no-nonsense character, Daybreak, investigating a serial arsonist alongside Emmy winner John Leguizamo. Chlumsky opened as much as MovieWeb about how her expertise on Smoke was enlightening in additional methods than one:
“On a really primary, logical degree, I fairly actually did not know that the ATF investigates arsonists. Like, Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms — oh, ‘firearms,’ OK. So, yeah, it actually was instructional. After which, I obtained to dive into the job hierarchies of the ATF and uncover what sort of path Daybreak would have taken to get to the place she is. There have been heaps of schooling.”
There is a good probability you will additionally study a factor or two about hearth investigations after watching Smoke. The restricted collection is now streaming on Apple TV+.