Kinnaman Embraces Aging as Ed Baldwin in For All Mankind’s Finale
In a Vulture exit interview, Joel Kinnaman reflects on aging into Ed Baldwin for the fifth season of For All Mankind, detailing the brutal makeup process (peaking at hours of prosthetics in earlier seasons and two-and-a-half hours in season 5), how he shaped Ed’s slower external tempo with a rapid inner life, and the character’s arc from maverick pilot to Martian advocate. He also discusses Ed’s death—sacrificing himself to help a friend—along with Korea-era flashbacks, working with Michael Dorman and Shantel VanSanten, and how the emotionally charged finale underscored mortality and the end of a long actor-family relationship with the show’s cast and writers.
