[ Laughter ]
-Hello. How do, Padraic?
-Sit somewhere else.
-Huh?
Uh, but I have me pint there, Colm.
-He has his pint there, Colm,
from when he came in and ordered his pint before.
-Well, okay, I'll sit somewhere else.
-Are you rowing? -I didn't think we were rowing.
-Well, you are rowing. -Well, you are rowing.
He's sitting outside on his own like a whatchamacallit.
-It does look like we're rowing.
I suppose I best go talk to him, so...
See what all this is feckin' about.
-That would be the best thing.
-Welcome back to "Late Night."
That was a clip from "The Banshees of Inisherin."
We're here with two of the best,
Brendan Gleeson and Colin Farrell.
A really lovely depiction -- even though, obviously
a great deal of conflict -- of how cozy,
how warm pub life can be.
You obviously shot inside for a great deal of this film.
And you've seen -- obviously there's a great deal
of drinking, as we see in the clip.
But that's not the real Guinness.
-Guinness Zero, thank God for it.
-Okay. Why thank God for Guinness Zero?
-Couple of reasons. On the production, we would have
had to drink just an inutterable amount of [bleep].
[ Laughter ] And it's not [bleep].
It's actually really tasty, the Guinness Zero.
It's a bit sweet for his tongue because likes the proper stuff.
-Yeah.
-But they only come out with it, and it's delicious.
And I've given it to a few other people who are, you know,
stout aficionados who are like, "Jesus, that's an eight."
[ Laughter ] "That's an eight, you know?"
So I loved it. And plus, when I got to go home
to Dublin the last time, I got to have a few pints with me mate
Rue, I was telling Brendan, and it was first time in about
16 years I got to sit in pub for four hours and have eight pints.
-Yeah. -Of zero alcohol.
-Yeah. The zero's the important part.
-Just to have the pint there
and just have the chat, it was wonderful.
-And also, on film sets,
you always have to drink the fake stuff.
What were they before Guinness?
-Everything was ghastly. It was actual cream and a cup of --
-Grape juice with cream. [ Audience oohs ]
All sorts of drink you shouldn't be mixing, you know.
-Flat Coke and stuff like that with a bunch of --
all sorts of unspeakables on top of it.
So it was okay, but if somebody --
you know, if you had a lot of takes,
and you had to drink in it, it was just -- I mean.
[ Speaking foreign language ] They say.
"It's important to suffer for art."
[ Laughter ]
And this was suffering.
-It did seem like -- you know,
this takes place in the '20s, very close quarters.
The houses that you were in seemed cramped.
But is that what -- I mean, did you travel when you were young?
Did you go on vacation to places like these islands?
-Yeah, well, I have been going down there for a long time.
And I think you spent -- -I spent a little bit of time
on the island we shot on, Inishmore, when I was a young --
when I was 17 or 18, we went there for a week on the piss
but I can't remember any of it.
[ Laughter ]
-I couldn't remember Achill because there was a lot of mist
and rain on the days I was there.
So it was fantastic, actually,
just to go and see it in all its magnificence.
-But I guess -- So, this is your home in the film.
-On the most beautiful beach. -Gorgeous.
-Extraordinary. Keem Bay, wasn't it?
-Yeah, you're looking wrong way. Out that way is --
-Yeah, yeah, yeah. -That way looks out this way.
The whole Atlantic is there, it's beautiful.
-That's just where Morris bit me, actually.
-That's exactly where Morris bit him.
-Is this very triggering? Is this triggering every time?
-Ow, ow! It's phantom pain. Phantom pain.
-We can't find any still from the film you're not having just
about to be bit or having just been bit.
-I need a tetanus now.
-There's a bit of, you know,
the fantastical and folklore in the very title.
You know, banshees, plays into the film.
Was that something -- when you were growing up, was the sort of
the fantasy element a part of your lives at all?
-In a kind of a way. I was -- We were both city boys,
so it wasn't quite as prevalent in there.
But there was a thing called the boogeyman,
which I think you have a version of over here.
-Yeah. -And you kind of tell each other
ghost stories and kind of frighten the life out of
everybody, and they would always -- the older people would
tell it to you before you go to bed, so you had to like --
So I always thought it was great fun because it was --
you could get really scared but you kind of, you know, you maybe
would take a sly look around underneath the bed or wherever,
but it never really frightened us.
But I had to babysit a young German child
at one point that went out -- -Good line.
[ Laughter ]
-I had never babysat anybody or anything before that,
and I went in, and I thought --
I think this kid was about 4 or 5.
And I told him about the story about the boogeyman
and he was traumatized, essentially.
-Yeah, 'cause you're a very convincing actor.
[ Laughter ]
-The parents came back and they said, "What have you done?
What have you done to our child?"
He was in there screaming. So yeah, there was always
a little bit of crossover
between reality and the fictional.
-Yeah. -Even in those days.
-You mentioned you guys are both from Dublin.
I went over with my family in August.
-Did ya? -For a college football game.
My university played over there.
-Your university played?
Because I know Navy and the Army play there usually.
-Yeah, so we had -- it was Northwestern-Nebraska
over there in that -- -Was it --
-The beautiful football stadium, the new one.
-Aviva? -Yeah, Aviva.
And it was great, but -- -Did people turn out?
-People turned out, yeah.
I wouldn't say it was full, full, but it was alright.
Oh, a very -- a lovely thing happened, which was they --
the registers weren't working. There was no way to take money.
-Ah, shut up, now! The registers work in Ireland!
[Bleep]!
[ Laughter and applause ]
-Come to Ireland where the registers don't work.
[ Laughter ]
-He would've turned on the news and the televisions
and see what was up, but there was no television.
[ Laughter ] [Bleep].
-It was great. The whole time I felt like I was in the '20s.
[ Laughter ]
-What happened though? -No, but they -- it was like,
you know, 15, 20 minutes of everybody being really happy --
sorry, being unhappy because nobody could get anything
to drink, and then they just said basically "[Bleep] it,
everything is free." [ Laughter ]
Which we thought was very --
a great example of Irish hospitality.
-Oh, my God, that's amazing.
-What did you have to do to bust up the registers?
[ Laughter ] -Exactly.
-You know, these days you just need to know one hacker.
That's all it is. [ Laughter ]
But we spent the whole week
being very charmed by the host city.
-Did you stay in Dublin or did you head out west at all?
-My brother and parents went -- They were golfing the weekend.
I just went in for the game, but we had a very charming
taxi driver who had the most Dublin of lines, I think,
which is, we got into the car,
and my mom will ask a lot of questions.
She's somebody who she wants to know the day.
And we get in the car, and she says, "Alright, I have a lot of
questions about what we're doing today."
And the taxi driver -- mind you, this is someone we've known
all of 15 seconds -- said,
"I'll tell you what we're going to do today.
One, I'm going to drop you off at the pub, and two,
you're going to stop asking so many [bleep] questions."
[ Laughter and applause ]
-Lovely! [ Cheers and applause ]
-And, you know, I can't believe we had to go all the way
to Ireland to get someone to tell my mom the thing
we've been wanting to tell her.
[ Laughter ]
-That is because all taxi drivers in Dublin
think of themselves as talk show hosts.
Where they do the talking.
-Well, it's just such a wonderful film.
I should also say, your co-stars, Kerry and Barry --
-Oh, gosh. -They're wonderful.
-Isn't Kerry extraordinary in the film?
-She's extraordinary. I'm very excited.
She's coming on here as well,
and I can't wait to tell her in person.
-Ah, you'll love her. She's brilliant.
-Kerry brought tears to eyes that you would not imagine
you can bring tears to. -Yeah.
-That performance is extraordinary, it really is.
-She's gut-wrenching in it. Yeah, she's gut-wrenching.
-And funny and brilliant. -Yeah.
-Such a vivacity about her. So it was a bit like that.
Like Martin had worked with all that cast,
apart from Barry Keoghan,
who is also kind of pretty amazing in it.
And he knew the people he was dealing with.
So part of the writing was allowing them
to bring what they bring.
And you can kind of tell.
I don't think there's a false note in it.
-There really isn't. And I say this about no films --
when it was over, I thought,
"I could have spent another hour with everybody there."
So it's really great.
And it's just always such a joy to have you both here with us.
Thank you so much. -Thanks, Seth.
-"The Banshees of Inisherin"
will be in theaters everywhere October 21st.
We'll be right back with more "Late Night."