Home --> News --> Blog --> Here
Boston Herald: print feature, audio interview
14 March 2007 at 01:07 AM | by Melty_Girl
The Boston Herald's Stephen Schaefer interviewed Cillian for a short The Wind That Shakes the Barley-focused piece, where Cillian talks about feeling like he had "a debt of responsibility to [his] ancestors" to play Damien. A nice bonus: the audio interview can be found on the Herald page along with the written feature.
As an audio interviewer, Schaefer comes across loud and clear as a print journalist, repeatedly (and unsuccessfully) fishing for provocative ego-driven quotes, but the interview is still quite interesting. They discuss Cillian's Barley prep process, then move on to other topics not covered in the print story: theatre as an intense training ground, how he chooses projects, how acting affects him at home, and his experience making Sunshine.
Asked to cite a film that changed his life, Cillian tells the story of how he and his brother, while trying to rent a scary movie for Halloween as teens, accidentally rented the 1973 Al Pacino/Gene Hackman movie Scarecrow, and it forever impacted his view of how intensely affecting film acting can be; he notes that director Jerry Schatzberg shot it in sequence, as Ken Loach did with Barley. (Scarecrow is a devastatingly emotional movie, by the way, with much to say about the Western male condition—thanks for the film rec, Cillian!)
email | 
permalink | - read more: feature stories, sunshine, wind that shakes the barley
Write a comment
Posts: 4
Reply #5 on : Thu March 15, 2007, 12:08:13
Posts: 4
Reply #4 on : Thu March 15, 2007, 12:01:50
Posts: 1
Reply #3 on : Wed March 14, 2007, 13:44:07
Posts: 4
Reply #2 on : Wed March 14, 2007, 07:54:29
Posts: 4
Reply #1 on : Wed March 14, 2007, 07:11:44