When Colin Farrell and Jessie Buckley sit down together, they’re practically strangers, but something shifts in the air almost immediately—the conversation plunges into depths that feel inevitable, as if the weight of what they’ve been carrying on screen demands to be acknowledged. Both Irish, both navigating the kind of roles that leave marks, they find themselves in that rare space where small talk feels impossible and honesty becomes the only currency worth trading.
Farrell has spent his year inhabiting the unraveling psyche of an addict in Edward Berger’s BALLAD OF A SMALL PLAYER, set against the neon-soaked backdrop of Macau, where his character exists in a perpetual state of financial and emotional freefall, grasping at connection with a credit broker played by Fala Chen even as everything else slips through his fingers.
Buckley, meanwhile, has endured something different but equally devastating in Chloé Zhao’s HAMNET, where she embodies Agnes Shakespeare, an imagined version of William’s wife, and walks through the unbearable aftermath of losing her son—her grief made all the more complex and wrenching when she discovers that her husband has transformed their tragedy into his greatest work, turning their private anguish into public art. It’s this tension between suffering and creation, between living through pain and witnessing it transmuted into something that might outlast them both, that seems to hover between Farrell and Buckley as they talk. Agnes is horrified at first, then slowly moved, forced to reckon with the uncomfortable truth that art can be both an act of theft and an act of preservation, that it can feel like betrayal and tribute at once. And perhaps that’s what draws these two actors together despite their unfamiliarity—they both understand, in their bones, what it means to offer yourself up to a story that asks for everything, to let yourself be emptied out in service of something larger, and to trust that there’s power in that emptying, that art really can reach across time and circumstance to touch something true in whoever encounters it.
Northern Irish actor @louismccartney_ has been cast as Ringo Starr in the upcoming BBC drama HAMBURG DAYS.
McCartney, from Helen’s Bay in County Down, is best known for playing Henry Creel in the West End and Broadway productions of STRANGER THINGS: THE FIRST SHADOW.
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Caitríona Balfe is back in corsets and we are absolutely here for it. 🎬✨
Georgia Oakley`s gorgeous new adaptation of SENSE AND SENSIBILITY arrives in theatres October 16 — with Balfe as Mrs. Dashwood, Daisy Edgar-Jones as Elinor, and Esmé Creed-Miles as Marianne.
This one is going to be something truly special. Link in bio.
Brendan Gleeson has given us IN BRUGES, THE BANSHEES OF INISHERIN, GANGS OF NEW YORK.
Now he`s stepping into the Marvel universe as crime boss Silvermane in SPIDER-NOIR. Starring opposite Nicolas Cage in a noir-soaked reimagining of 1930s New York, this is unlike anything Marvel has done before.
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We have our first look at @nicolacoughlan in I AM HELEN, the newest chapter in Dominic Savage`s extraordinary I AM series for @channel4.
A story about toxic masculinity, modern relationships, and the pressures placed on women, told through a female lens.
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Andrew Scott. Brendan Fraser. 72 hours before D-Day.
The fate of the free world hanging in the balance.
PRESSURE was the WWII sleeper hit nobody saw coming — and now it`s streaming at home. Don`t sleep on it twice.
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To the Irish dads who raised us, frustrated us, and made us laugh 🍀❤️
From Gerry Quinn patiently enduring every insult thrown at him in Derry while just trying to be heard 😂 to Liam Moone doing his best in Boyle with four kids and zero control, to Colm Meaney`s Dessie Curley standing by his daughter Sharon no matter what.
Irish screens have given us some of the most gloriously human fathers in television and film history. They`re not always perfect. They`re not always present. But they`re ours.
Happy Father`s Day!
Aidan Turner isn`t going anywhere!
Disney+ has officially greenlit RIVALS for a third season — and if the jaw-dropping twists of season two are anything to go by, we are absolutely not ready for what`s coming.
Aidan Turner and @officialdannydyer are back in the world of scandal, passion and revenge that has made this show one of the most addictive things on television.
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Paul Mescal went from a #Dublin sausage ad to one of the most talked-about actors of his generation — and AFTERSUN is the film that proves exactly why.
Now streaming on #Netflix, this quiet, devastating masterpiece follows a young father and his daughter on a sun-soaked holiday that hides something far darker beneath the surface.
New blog post up now — link in bio. 💙
