“I may be involved in another theatre project later in the year. At the moment we wait to see if the Lynda La Plante Above Suspicion got the figures that it needs to get to see if they will make another one. And meanwhile a script has landed in the door just yesterday; a small film but I don’t know the dates on that. So at the moment literally I finish on the 26th of February and either I get the sandwich board out and march up and down or something will turn up.”
“The idea of getting to drive Daniel Radcliffe around the Yorkshire Dales in a 1913 Rolls Royce – I didn’t know that would ever happen to me, but it was a joy.” The Woman In Black is directed by James Watkins and will be released to US theaters on February 3rd and in the UK on February 10th.
Above Suspicion returned for a fourth season and was aired weekly instead of over consecutive nights. The latest figures reveal the concluding part of Silent Scream was seen by 5.7 million viewers at 9pm on January 24th. Are Langton and Travis destined never to be together, or could they? Hopefully we will almost certainly be given another good story next year and maybe know more about their complex relationship…
The Shore, written, directed and produced by Terry George, is one of the movies selected in the best short film category. The 30-minute film was shot entirely in Northern Ireland on location in Killough. Ciarán said it was a “lovely story about reconciliation and people reconnecting”.
Based on a 1983 thriller fiction novel by Susan Hill and remake of a film released in 1989, The Woman In Black is a true ghost story. The featurette provides an insight from the director’s vision about the spectre and more. Author Susan Hill, screenwriter Jane Golman and actor Ciarán Hinds give their points of view about the story.
Although the actors’ performances are very enjoyable, it may be difficult to engage with the labyrintic plot and the slow pacing of the movie. Once more a very frustratingly small part for Ciarán.
Late home one evening from a night shoot, British film star Amanda Delany puts the key in her front door for the very last time… While Travis and the team grapple to track down Amanda’s killer, she has challenges of her own to overcome..
“The makeup, I think, on Ciarán, is the best makeup that’s ever been done on any of the films. It’s astonishing. To make him look that much like Michael Gambon while still there being just enough subtle differences for it to be a brother rather than an identical twin.”
“It was really hard to find yourself in there. It’s a fairly heavy disguise. It comes in three parts; what they’ve done is made me some little eye bags just in here, but then they push into the skin. And then they’ve given me – what you can’t see – from the eyes up here is this big forehead that Michael has that I don’t. And the only other thing is the nose because mine’s a bit crooked and thinner. So in fact they just added some features and then it transforms the whole thing.”
In the bleak days of the Cold War, espionage veteran George Smiley is forced from semi-retirement to uncover a Soviet agent within MI6’s echelons. Ciarán is Roy Bland (Soldier).
