Hi Ciarán, Scott from HeyUGuys.
Hey, guys. Hi, guys.
How are you? Congratulations.
Not too bad. Good, good, good to get started on this. Fantastic.
Oh, you're going to see it.
All right. It's very, very good.
OK, guys are raving about this press. Great.
That's always good.
Obviously, this is a huge part of history that a lot of younger
people don't know too much about. And obviously, you grew up in the region.
So what are you hoping in terms of younger audiences take away from from the film
and what they learn from it from the Belfast history? Well,
some of that I was just saying before
that the the connection of people in Belfast
is very strong family, family tradition, an extended family, not just close family,
uncles, aunts, great aunt, second cousins, third cousins.
There's a web there
that is very important to the culture of Belfast and storytelling.
And basically after making a fool of yourself.
But that's all right.
You know, just sharing that kind of the small little world you are living.
And I think that as part of the culture and the things that we do
in Ken[neth Branagh]'s own personal life,
the idea that when you think of a kid from a working class background
, they're wondering about the opportunities in life
and suddenly surrounded by all these different
this violence and this darkness and this sectarianism, that
the fact that we don't know what's written in our stars, we don't know.
But the possibility exists for every kid to think I can
I can look at the stars, I can go there, I can possibly wherever I'm feeling down,
I can push it open and look at something else and hopefully that will serve them well.
Well, as a testament
to Ken as well, with his story and also having the filmmaker
that he's able to attract all these amazing people.
Judi Dench, Jamie Dornan, younger and older.
And I've been concerned about the struggle. Extraordinary.
Judi, Judi says I've worked 12 times and I'm not doing it again.
I've had enough of them.
And these lights are off.
Every time she comes out, says she comes out to go like, oh, here's
a great Judi Dench. And she's so funny.
She is. She's really wonderful, warm, witty, wicked woman.
Did that come off for you when you were working with the guys,
having to talk about the family dynamic that did you feel that Ken captured that
really well with this group of actors?
I guess so, yeah. I mean, we told our own stories to each other.
That's what he wanted as a director.
What was your parents like
and what did you tell us about your sisters or your family
so that while we all told each other about who our family was, he said, OK,
let's start with that
because I'm not going to ask you to impersonate my grandpa.
You have things inside you that relate to that, and that's what we're going to use.
It's such a brilliant, brilliant director, extraordinary actor.
I mean, I workaholics a man so
gifted and it's wonderful for everybody, for the world. Oh, sorry.
I just wanted to just finally want to ask you about your young Jude [Hill].
Obviously, most people
are raving about his performance, you know, as a young actor and come in.
What did you make of him and his turn in this?
When I was introduced the first day, we sat opposite each other,
and he had this little face support that size below the table.
This is the face with his eyes.
And he just hung on every word and he wasn't to commit to, you know.
How are you? Fine.
And then two days later, you start to see him open and open and open.
So at the time they started filming,
he was as free as a bird, and Ken so magnificently.
So it wasn't directing a child.
He was they were working in tandem together.
And that was very beautiful to watch as an outsider, watching how he
developed that together and to give that young boy
the power of his own performance was fantastic.
And I said, Ken is just so crisp and how ihe has time for it all.
I don't know. The man's brains.
Extraordinary journey.
She comes out of something.
I tend to not like this, and she's such great.
She's been just great fun.
I wish her the best in the film. Thank you so much for your time.