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“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).
Based on the classic ghost story, The Woman In Black tells the tale of Arthur Kipps (Daniel Radcliffe), a lawyer who is forced to leave his young son and travel to a remote village to attend to the affairs of the recently deceased owner of Eel Marsh House.
Featuring interviews with actress Sinéad Cusack and costume and set designer Bob Crowley.
“The Captain is a chancer, a skiver, a liar, a cheat, and a bully. He’s aggressive and drunk. What’s appealing about that? Yet you have to make him human somewhere, whether it’s through his sense of wonder or of loss,” says Ciarán.
After its run on the Abbey stage, it will transfer to the National Theatre.
A short scene from the production and interviews with Fiach Mac Conghail, Sinéad Cusack and Ciarán Hinds.
Sean O’Casey’s daughter, Siobhan, Sinéad Cusack’s actor husband, Jeremy Irons attended the opening night ofJuno And The Paycock at the Abbey theatre.
“The Captain is a chancer, a skiver, a liar, a cheat, and a bully. He’s aggressive and drunk. What’s appealing about that? Yet you have to make him human somewhere, whether it’s through his sense of wonder or of loss,” says Ciarán.
After its run on the Abbey stage, it will transfer to the National Theatre.
Between two rehearsals of Juno And The Paycock, Ciarán is currently touring the radio stations to promote Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy due to open in the UK on September 16th. Tinker looks to have lived up to expectation in Venice. Already being talked about as the year’s best film, it is well positioned for an award season run.
Ciarán Hinds is standing at the stage door of the National Theatre in London, where he has spent the day rehearsing for Juno and the Paycock, Sean O’Casey’s play about 1920s Ireland. He is wearing jeans, a loose T-shirt and a tweed flat cap. “That’s a fitting hat for the play you’re doing,” I offer, by way of a greeting. “And what’s yours?” he shoots back, nodding towards my black bowler with a good-natured smile and a raised eyebrow. “Waiting for Godot, maybe?”
While waiting to be shown up to the theatre’s interview room, Hinds explains how Juno will travel to the Abbey theatre before returning to London to play in rep with The Veil, Conor McPherson’s new plays. The Juno run-throughs have taken over the National Theatre’s main rehearsal space so McPherson and his crew have had to practise offsite. “They might be pissed of,” Hinds says with a shrug of the shoulders. “But that’s life.”
Ciaran was on Radio 2 yesterday morning to promote his new film Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy and to talk about his new play Juno And The Paycock (open the link and scroll down to “Sound clips” to listen to the interview).
In this the second part of O’Casey’s great Dublin Trilogy, the ambitions of the Boyle family are set against the political and social events of the Irish Civil War in 1922. Set in a tenement house, Juno and the Paycock is an epic tale of survival and vengeance punctuated by dreadful poverty.
Juno, the spirited matriarch of the Boyle household tries to keep her family together while it is being pulled apart by growing political unrest. Her husband, Captain Jack Boyle drinks his way through his days with his side-kick Joxer Daly, while their children fail tragically in their own search for a better life. When the family learns of an inheritance from a distant relative, it seems that all their problems will be solved, but will they manage to transcend the events that conspire to keep them in their place?
From Broadway hits to home-grown talent, from acrobatic Russian clowns to tragedies in Dublin tenements – Ciarán is back on stage!