-Our next guest is a very talented actress you know from
shows such as "Ray Donovan" and "Better Call Saul."
She stars in "The Banshees of Inisherin,"
which is in select theaters now.
Let's take a look.
-What are you doing home?
-I knocked on Colm's sonny lorry.
He was just sitting there.
-Sitting there doing what?
-Sitting there doing nothing, smoking.
-Was he asleep?
-He was smoking, Siobhan.
How do you smoke in your sleep, like?
-Have you been rowing?
-We haven't been rowing.
I don't think we've been rowing.
Have we been rowing?
Why wouldn't he answer the door to me?
-Maybe he just doesn't like you no more.
-Please welcome to the show Kerry Condon, everyone.
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Kerry, how are you?
-Hey, hi. I'm a bit nervous.
It's my first talk show in America.
-Well, you're off to a great start.
You fully got up to the chair, and that's the hardest part.
-Yeah, I know. I was worried about that.
Thank you. -Yeah. Now it's a breeze.
From here on out, it's a breeze. -Thank you.
-I'm a huge fan of yours. I love this movie.
For those who don't know, it's about a couple of friends
who break up.
It's a platonic-breakup film.
You play the sister of Colin Farrell's character.
You've worked with Colin before. -Yes.
-In a film called "Intermission," I believe.
-Yes.
-Yeah. And, so, was it nice to have a sort of reunion of sorts?
-It was.
I'd known him over the years, like, you know,
seeing him at things and stuff and texts and things like that.
So, it is, because when someone's quite famous,
you know, I'm always a bit nervous about imposing on them.
And, like, you know, people are always coming up to them,
and I don't want to be that person
who's always coming up to them.
So, I think if it had been someone else,
it would have been a bit -- taking my time approaching him,
where it was easy because I knew him for so long.
-He's a pretty approachable -- As far as a famous person goes,
I do find -- I think Colin's a pretty approachable fella.
-Yeah, but, still, you don't want to be annoying people.
You know what I mean? -Yeah, that's true.
That's a good lesson here for everyone here to take away.
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Now, this was shot on an island off the coast of Ireland.
And, you know, Brendan and Colin were here,
and they were talking about the locals
and their varying levels of excitement
of having a movie filmed on their island.
Did you find that people were excited to see
either you or Brendan or Colin?
-Well, no, the only people who were excited
where I was living were these two cute little boys,
who were, like, really, really young.
And all of them had cute little glasses.
And they knew Brendan from "Paddington."
-Yeah. -Oh, my God! It was so cute!
-And did they care about Colin at all?
-Couldn't give a [bleep] about Colin, yeah.
-Well, there you go.
Well, that will keep him from getting, you know --
getting airs about him, you know?
-Exactly. Yeah, yeah.
-You know, even in the clip, we saw, I guess,
a little Shetland pony there.
-A little donkey. -A little donkey, right.
Excuse me.
A correction that's made in the film, as well, I should note.
-Yes.
-It didn't seem like you had to do as much of the sort of
animal co-starring that Colin had to do.
But did you find that you spent a fair amount of time,
more than normal, with animals?
-Yeah, well, I'm good with animals
because I've got horses of my own, you know?
So I'd be good around them.
But Jenny, the little donkey -- she was very young,
and, so, she had a little friend donkey with her all the time.
Yes! Called Rosie.
-So, is that because when you're young on set,
there are rules, like, the donkey union --
-Like a chaperone, yes.
And then Rosie would come on the set
and be, like, kind of an older presence.
And so Jenny would kind of relax a bit more
when she could see Rosie.
So I really, like -- Yeah, it made Rosie feel really special,
'cause I hate favoritism.
-Yeah. -You know?
-And it can happen.
It can happen with animals just as easy
as is it can with the cast, yeah.
And it's very nice to have someone
who's sort of familiar with horses.
to notice which one's getting the favoritism.
'Cause it seemed Colin didn't enjoy the horses as much.
-He had to a scene -- He had to do loads of
horse-and-carrot stuff, which is hard, now,
and I'm not good at that.
But, like, he knew I had horses,
so I suppose he was a little maybe insecure.
doing the horse stuff.
But I always tried to leave him alone when he was doing it
so he wouldn't be embarrassed or anything.
But we did have one day when we were quite close to a cliff,
and I think the horse was getting a bit, by the end of it,
like, "I'm done.
I just am done with this. I don't want to do it anymore."
And it was windy and all sorts.
And at the end of the take, Colin said to the costume lady,
"Oh, can I have a change of underpants, please?"
Because we nearly went into the -- off the cliff, yeah.
-It is -- This movie takes place, you know,
100 years ago or so.
But, yet, it feels very modern in the themes.
And it's also very funny.
I know you've worked with Martin over the years.
And, you know, he's written --
He obviously writes in different eras.
But I do feel like there's this very --
like, a DNA that goes through all his writing,
where it's very easy to listen to.
It's very funny. It does seem very natural.
Was it fun to get to work with a script like this?
-Yeah, because I always loved his Irish stuff.
Like, I mean, I was a little biased --
-Now, you're Irish, correct?
-Yes, of course. -Yeah, okay.
-And I had done all the Irish plays,
so they were, like, what I liked about his stuff,
and I always felt like they were very moving.
And when he'd done his movies, I was thinking,
"Oh, people, like, they haven't seen all his stuff,"
because the Irish stuff was so great.
So when I read the script, I remember thinking, "Oh, yes!
It's like one of your Irish plays but a movie,
so everyone's going to see now how great you are at that,
the dialogue of the Irish stuff.
-It's a wonderful cast from top to bottom.
And, obviously, this was shot at a time where people
weren't getting to interact as much
because it was during COVID.
And it -- I can only imagine how nice it must have been
to be amongst a group of actors who were working on
something as special as this is.
-Yeah, I hate talking about COVID, though.
-Yeah, we don't have to. -I hate it. I'm so sick of it.
Isn't that terrible?
But it's like I think I have PTSD.
I shouldn't say that, 'cause I don't really have PTSD.
But there's something about it.
I just, like -- I wish we just never --
Pretend it never happened. -You know what?
Let's just pretend it never happened, alright?
-Thank you. -You're very welcome.
-Thank you.
-If you ever see a photo of me wearing a mask,
it's because I had a bad cold.
-Yay. Okay, okay. -It was a cold.
It was nothing else.
You were on one of my favorite shows,
which was "Better Call Saul."
And you came in, but you had never seen
"Breaking Bad," correct?
-Yeah. God almighty. I'll never live that down.
I saw it now, but I hadn't seen it when I did my --
-That's okay. -Yeah, because it was a prequel.
-Yeah.
-Like, in my defense, it was a prequel.
So I was like, "Well, I don't really need to know
what happens in the future."
-Yeah. In a weird way,
it would make the job as an actor harder.
because your character shouldn't know what the future is.
-Exactly. -Yeah.
Look at me making up excuses for you.
-Well, I know, for my laziness. I know.
It wasn't laziness.
I think I didn't know what the audition was for, I believe.
-Well, you shouldn't have to go watch seven seasons of a show
before an audition.
-I mean, you know -- -Yeah, I do.
Now, by the way, I didn't even get a call for the audition,
so who am I to say?
-Well, I did watch it eventually,
and I'm glad I didn't watch it before,
'cause I think I would have been really nervous,
because it was so good and it was so original.
And I think I would have overthought it.
So I was kind of glad I hadn't seen it.
-Well, I said it to everybody who worked on
"Better Call Saul."
Like, another thing that I couldn't believe worked,
but not only worked, but it was exactly as good as the original.
So it was a really cool thing to see.
It was great to see you in it.
But this film, you were so wonderful in this film.
-Thanks a million.
-And I told Brendan and Colin when they were here,
because they're two of my favorite actors,
but when they were in scenes with you,
you were just running circles around them.
So thank you so much for being here.
-Thanks a million. Thank you so much.
-I really appreciate it. Kerry Condon, everybody.
"The Banshees of Inisherin" in select theaters now.
We'll be right back with music from
Kurt Vile & the Violators.