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Jump to full article: New York Times, 2008-03-09
Author: SUSAN STEWART
Intro: COMEDY is hard, and quitting cigarettes makes it harder. Hamish Linklater, who plays Julia Louis-Dreyfus’s brother, Matthew, on the CBS show “The New Adventures of Old Christine,” learned this last year.
He gave up smoking when his wife, Jessica Goldberg, a playwright and screenwriter, became pregnant. Good news for his baby, Lucinda Rose, who was born in April, but bad news for his career: it improved his voice.
“I now have a more plaintive, sensitive, vulnerable register, which is apparently very annoying,” Mr. Linklater, 31, said. “I lack mystery now. I’m so available now. I have to find more restraints for Matthew.”
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