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.
BAD SISTERS creator @sharonhorgan is in the @criterioncollection closet.
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Congrats to Saoirse Ronan!
PAPER PLANE, her 15-min directorial and screenwriting debut, has just won BIG at @encounterssff.
Despite four Oscar nominations, Saoirse still truly believes in independent film!
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73-year-old @piercebrosnanofficial tells @interviewmag that acting means constantly constructing and destroying a part of yourself to become the character.
From Bond to MOBLAND and everything in between, Brosnan is the real deal.
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Richard Linklater just gave the most Linklater progress report imaginable on MERRILY WE ROLL ALONG: nine sections, twenty years, and the fourth one starts filming in a few months. Paul Mescal has been along for the ride since 2019, and the finished film will take eight years longer than BOYHOOD, which already felt like an impossible feat at twelve.
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The first trailer for ELSINORE is here, and it`s a gut punch 🎭
Andrew Scott plays the late Ian Charleson, the actor who chased the performance of his lifetime as Hamlet at the National Theatre while facing impossible odds. Simon Stone (THE DIG) directs, Stephen Beresford (PRIDE) writes, and Olivia Colman stars alongside Scott, who also produced.
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Colin Farrell, @taylorswift Swift and Dakota Johnson - what a combo!
The BANSHEES OF INISHERIN star is the latest Irish actor to appear in a Swift music video, with PATIENT ZERO premiering tonight at the @vmas.
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Caitríona Balfe has seen it all when it comes to OUTLANDER fans!
The SENSE AND SENSIBILITY star shares the funniest, most unforgettable encounters with the people who`ve followed Claire Fraser`s journey for over a decade 😂
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BAD SISTERS creator @sharonhorgan strikes gold again!
Her new comedy, YOUTH, about a 50-year-old caught between her college-aged son and her aging parents is now on @hbomax.
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She commands every room she walks into 🎭
Siobhán McSweeney, the BAFTA-winning star of DERRY GIRLS, is now the host of THE TRAITORS IRELAND, guiding strangers through a game of trust, suspicion, and deception where a single glance can shift the balance of power.
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