i thought herself was such a wonderful film and it was an incredible performance your talent and
your hard work has got you here but i guess sometimes it does feel like you just need the
right role the right director the right part and i really felt like in that instance everything
came together for you yeah i was only saying that to somebody today i was like i feel like
everything unified like i i was finding it hard to get into screen so i thought i was going to
have to work in the background of screenwriting and then once fellow deloitte said uh actually i
want claire to play the main role it was like all my dreams came true you know and yeah even as we
were developing it for a couple of years just in those couple of years waiting for it all to shoot
i felt like i had this like really gorgeous gift in my back pocket that was about to be given to me
so yeah it was amazing you were saying on stage before that you you had to grieve the character
in some ways when you say goodbye have you ever had that before on stage or on screen um
i think maybe roles that i've played for a long time on screen on on stage i definitely had on
screen i suppose after herself i then played amanda and ken and i feel like when you play
somebody for four or five months and you're literally walking their shoes that long you
do have to sort of like process that that's left you now afterwards but i think the the biggest one
is definitely even sandra i mean obviously acting is a sort of strange profession i mean my i've got
family members i've gone into it and there's so much self-doubt keeps in it it feels and
when you get an award and a sort of a recognition like the shooting stars is it almost like a bit of
validation sometimes it's something that you sort of go and maybe i'm doing okay maybe things aren't
you know because i guess interacting you'll kind of feel like you're so much yeah so much sort of
um judging of yourself and stuff like that it feels putting yourself out there but something
like this does it make you feel a bit like yes things are all right yeah i do actually i think
it's also because uh you realize that i don't know you feel a bit more connected to everyone
and that they actually know you're on a journey with it they know it's not always easy so it's
like a moment of your industry and your fellow uh collaborators and actors kind of going hey
you know you're doing good just keep going like there is an element of that going on
um but i think at some point you have to feel not self-validation but you do have to kind of
keep the faith even when you don't have work i think i've learned that you have to just have a
small flame of faith no matter what but yeah this is incredible to have and how's it been spending
time with the other wonderful nine winners because i've just sort of said before i mean it's the
there's something only you guys know and share you know we're sort of in this room full of
people but there's a kind of unspoken thing that all of you are going through together that you
always that seems to bond people so much on this we're only together like less than 24 hours and
i feel like we're in a little family but also they're all making me laugh so much like we're
all having the craic yes you say in ireland you know we're just having great banter and
we're also having really good chats about like what's it like at the moment in the industry and
how are you feeling about certain things that you're doing and this that and the other and
i've realized that we're all very much a bit more than an actor we're definitely like a bit
innovative and a bit more of a creator in ourselves and we were all talking last night
about how much we love the community that you form when you're in the process of making something
and that it's lovely when you get involved in projects much earlier on and but yes so we all
have like common common denominators going on with our work even if we're all very different
and you're saying uh before that obviously you you it was writing primarily doing stuff on
stage you've kind of come into the screen work now is this does this feel now like you're here
to stay does it feel like this is is it you know in this house in a sense like is this what you
can see yourself doing and pursuing more is now on screen kind of filming tv i think i don't feel as
overwhelmed or outside of it anymore and i think i did just feel that thing of you know it's very
human thing to just feel like i'm not in that how do i get in and now i feel like okay i'm actually
involved in it now and i think i can handle it and and i do hope it's the beginning of just the next
phase of just doing some good work like nothing nothing too crazy just like continuing to own
the craft and keep going yeah maybe herself too like i see then you don't have to agree
with the character you can say hello again yeah do what we're doing here thank you so much so
ladies and much you're watching hey you guys hey you guys how are you guys