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Gabriel Byrne, Actor

Posted in Actors, Cinema, Film, Interviews on February 7, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

 
First Published: The Irish Times, Saturday, February 7, 2009
HE DOESN’T SAY who the actress was; he’s too discreet to name names. But Gabriel Byrne does a mean imitation of her Hollywood twang, and an even meaner imitation of her horror-struck visage. He was on a film set, “quite a while ago now”; back, perhaps, when [...]

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Maggie Gyllenhaal, Actor

Posted in Actors, Cinema, Film, Interviews, New Yorkers, tagged on July 21, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

 
First Published: The Irish Times, July 21, 2007
MAGGIE GYLLENHAAL SMILES a smile of polite, determined detachment. I’ve just asked her how she is. And I’m not entirely sure she has actually answered me. Possibly, all she’s offering is this look almost of amusement; why, it seems to say, would I bother to ask her such [...]

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Anthony Hopkins, Actor

Posted in Actors, Film, Interviews, tagged on February 18, 2006 | Leave a Comment »

 
First Published: The Irish Times, February 18, 2006
What? Anthony Hopkins is here?” The porter in the hotel on Park Avenue spins around to his colleagues, who have just given me directions to the interview suite. He’s 60 if he’s a day, this porter; and on this job, on this block, he should really have shaken [...]

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