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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).
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.
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).
This is a far cry from the almost likable devil of The Seafarer… Let’s hope it won’t become a habit, but we assume there will be a lot of fun for amateurs and wannabe arsonists.
Rhode Island International Film Festival (an Academy Awards-qualifying festival), August 9-14, announced the winners of its 15th annual fest. Ciarán won the first prize in the Best Male Actor category (tied with Michael Cuomo) for his performance in The Shore while Terry George won the grand prize in the Best Director category.
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy is about a conspiracy. Gary Oldman plays a lead MI6 who is forced out of retirement to investigate an agent from the Soviet Union who has made his way into the ranks of MI6. So is it Tinker, Tailor, Soldier (played by Ciarán) or Spy?
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy will be released on September 16 in Ireland and UK and November 18 in the USA.