Farrell & Buckley: ACTORS ON ACTORS
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.
50 years, GAME OF THRONES, BELFAST, an Oscar nomination and now a lifetime achievement award!
Ciarán Hinds doesn`t look back. He looks ahead. He lives in the moment. And when asked to reflect on five decades of extraordinary work, his response was simply—"It`s kind of shocking."
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Some ghosts don`t stay buried.
Cillian Murphy returns as Tommy Shelbyun THE IMMORTAL MAN - older, greyer, and facing the legacy he left behind.
His son runs the Blinders now. His past won`t let him rest. One choice will change everything. 👑💔
Cinemas March 6 • Netflix March 20
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✨ EXCLUSIVE: Eve Hewson is heading back to Dublin.
Joining forces with acclaimed director Lenny Abrahamson, the Irish actress is set to star in a stunning new period drama that transports us to 1970s Dublin—a city pulsing with cultural complexity and untold stories.
The film will explore the vibrant Jewish community of the era, with Hewson joined by acclaimed English actor Tom Burke and breakthrough talent Shane Meagher. A reunion of Abrahamson`s trusted collaborators (hello, NORMAL PEOPLE magic ✨), this ensemble promises something truly special.
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MOBLAND Season Two is underway!
Irish actors @piersmorgan and @scandalous_13 are back and this season promises to be something else entirely!
Season One made history as one of Paramount+`s biggest ever debuts, and if the word coming out of production is anything to go by, they`re not here to play it safe.
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Liam Neeson returns to theatres in COLD STORAGE - the kind of film that makes you laugh, makes your skin crawl, and then makes you laugh again!
A 1979 NASA cover-up. An alien fungus sealed in a government vault. And two underpaid warehouse workers who just became humanity`s last hope.
Sharp. Funny. Genuinely unsettling. More Liam at irishfilmtv.com.
Brendan Gleeson returns to THE WEIR as cameras roll in Ireland, bringing Conor McPherson`s haunting stage masterpiece to the screen.
Fresh off a five-star West End run that WhatsOnStage called "staggeringly good," the entire acclaimed cast is back to capture the magic of this modern Irish classic.
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When Emerald Fennell texted @alisonjoliver about joining WUTHERING HEIGHTS, the answer was immediate: yes.
"I just love her so much that I would do anything she was doing," Oliver says about reuniting with Fennell after SALTBURN.
The film is now in theatres, more at irishfilmtv.com.
Barry Keoghan has arrived.
The Dublin actor who made us unable to look away in SALTBURN is now going head-to-head with Chris Hemsworth, Mark Ruffalo, and Halle Berry in CRIME 101 — and he`s not just keeping up, he`s stealing scenes.
This isn`t just another role—this is Keoghan proving he belongs among Hollywood`s heaviest hitters, taking his Love/Hate juice straight to LA and reminding everyone that sometimes the hungriest actor in the room is the most dangerous one.
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One man. Eight characters. Pure theatrical magic. ✨
Andrew Scott`s VANYA won Best Play Revival at the WhatsOnStage Awards after its triumphant West End run at the Duke of York`s Theatre and now tops the list of best one-man shows of recent times.
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