Making The Banshees of Inisherin | Colin Farrell & Brendan Gleeson | The Late Late Show | RTÉ One

the Silver Screen has shown up so many golden couples Bogart and because Hepburn and Tracy Turner and Hooch but who could forget the unlikely friendship of two Hitmen from In Bruges after 14 years The Lads are back but this time there's trouble Brewing please welcome straight from the premiere of the Banshees of initi shares Colin Farrell and Brandon Gleason [Applause] oh it's great to see in real life good to see you fellas good to see you Ryan thanks for being here thanks for having us you know if before we go [Applause] real life yeah yeah Dublin yeah Ireland no filter no filter no Fully live yeah welcome home and uh good to see you both and just as an aside you were so good to us during the last couple years coming in every so often with the mandolin or just for the chats it was very decent obviously thank you appreciate that I will thank you and thanks for all the coverage you gave to the Hospice we're gonna we're gonna have a little show tomorrow night for our people involved in it um great so that's it's kind of nice it was great getting a particularly the beginning of covet where things were it can get forgotten but it's nice to keep it in mind it's still it's still taking my uh my breath away what those guys do yeah I appreciate you for doing that and equally he came out and played the mandolin fiddle and yeah that's some tunes yeah yeah we had a great tune you had a great gym yeah I brought in a kind of a dulcerer that's what it was very hard [Laughter] and Colin we spoke a few times by the awful Zoom but thanks again for that I I I'm so happy to see you as well because I get the sense from the movie which we'll talk about in a sec I got the sense you were so happy to be home filming this Earth You know the earthiness of it yeah no it's it's worked out once every three or four years I get to come home and shoot something and it's uh it's not by Design but just by Good Fortune and coincidence so this was the first time yeah maybe in three or four years that I've been home to work yeah it's a well not been home I get home every year yes but for a week or two to catch up with everybody um but to get home and spend two or three months here yeah especially on something I loved and especially you know with someone I love and Martin as well I know well at this stage you know after 14 years since In Bruges I felt like it was yesterday it didn't feel like it was really yeah except for the pains in the knees and the hips that's different because I was watching this film during the congratulations on the movie I mean as I say we get into nuts and boltsville but I watched him bruise recently again it and just briefly on that it's gained a bit of a cold status as you probably are hearing more and more people probably quoting it to you more and more yeah something about it it seems to have been a slow burn that's just following you have you noticed that Brandon yeah I mean it was a little bit confusing it's a little you know like Martin is a very singular voice yeah so um you know when in British came I remember thinking oh no like are they going is that the way they're going to sell us and they're all kind of when something is unique there isn't a genre you can shove it into and just say this is what it is in order to give people the correct expectations so when people saw it they were they came for the wrong reasons really they thought if if it was a comedy it's not really a comedy and such you know they thought it's whatever you know killer Thriller thing or something it's not really that and such and it's so it went out a little slowly and even in Britain it didn't it didn't happen then I went over to the states and suddenly there was an undercurrent started and then they brought it back to remember that they brought it back so it did really well they brought it back into the cinemas and had another goal because Second Chance the word of mouth was there Alexander I'm thinking yeah yeah [Laughter] so it had an odd thing and then it took cold starters and yes and now and now like yeah it has a very particular Niche talk to one that people would mention most if anyone ever bothers come up and mention it and they've ever done is it really yeah absolutely really yeah would you tell us about that or Alexander I want my money back but come on let's talk about funny let's talk let's talk about this movie because uh why don't you give us the plot for as much as you can so uh best mates yeah uh lifelong or very long time best mates we have a standing agreement every day we go to the pub at two o'clock for a few pints and a bit a bit of a bit of banteria and I call up to his house uh first 30 seconds minute of the film and he tells me that well he doesn't tell me and he ignores me I knock on the door and I say I'll see you down the pub yeah I go down the pub he's not there the barman says where is he I say he's not here and he says he's always with you and I go yeah I know and he goes are you right on and I say no and then I go I better go and check again willing he goes yeah you're better and then I go and I'll come back he's not in the house anymore and I see him to open the hill I'll stop soon I see him up on the hill and I know he's going to the pub I get into the pub he's there and I say what's going on he basically says I don't like you no more I don't want to be your friend and that's it that's the first that's the first yeah there is an uh that's the first year big meanie that's the birth there first and your Crest fallen and I know I'm destroyed and it's the it's actually the implications of the of the severance of this relationship really and the importance of this relationship for for my character and for his character column as well and and how the the kind of almost the the violence of the severance of their friendship in such a Swift and concise Line in the Sand kind of way how that over the next 90 minutes Peter's out into the community the consequences that have as for everyone psychologically and emotionally in this in this island because there's a lot of several yeah it gets dark yeah yeah yeah there is yeah as you know yeah um the the primary you've just come from the Dublin how did that go Brandon brilliantly yeah and we was in the lighthouse and so um we had the the cinemas where we had the kind of primary or Ordinary People we could ask kind of people that we knew friends and other people who are involved and then the next cinema we're at the cast and crew which is fantastic and started at the same time and it was part of the one experience so it meant it was a particularly kind of collaborative thing uh everybody and was invested in it in a way that you know it's the dream way to work and so it was fantastic to be able to celebrate it together with our friends from our our personal lives and maybe you know the people who were as much a part of making it as we were yes and so it was fantastic like we actually had to bail and to come out here and we're kind of said hey it's the whole thing going on there that uh just people we wanted to see especially for you yeah I mean I'm missing two weeks it's a little bit different yeah I know I mean I know the purpose of me visit home this time 36 hours it says sell the movie and do a bit of press tomorrow and all that jazz but I had friends there that I wanted to see that I didn't get to but look it was I I know I am home this time and I'll get home again but I do miss I do miss the people that mean a lot to me of course I still live here of course do you think that's what like to go back to your original question about about the earthiness of the experience working on this yeah out the west and being on inishmore for you know we rehearse with Martin Martin insists on rehearsal for the whole cast for two or three weeks which you never get in film you never get that I mean that's something that you get in theater you know you a bit longer of course but you never get in like that in film so to sit in a room with people and to begin to have that kind of shared experience was extraordinary and then we went to inishmore and the iron Islands we were there for four weeks and then we went to Ackle and the communities the people in both places welcomed us so much and a lot came up for everyone because it's ah I don't want to say it's an Irish story of course it does have some very detailed cultural bends and mannerisms and archetypes and stuff but it is a very Universal story but it's it's it's drawn it's written so beautifully and it's so provocative of a script was that everyone felt engaged yeah there's nobody hair and makeup Department the catering Department the wardrobes you know aim of the schemer and everyone I mean everyone was just so engaged so it really felt like there was no in front of the camera no behind the camera everyone was breathing story into yeah and then to see so then to see it like we were over in the states so to see there's been a kind of a reaction over there and we were in Venice we got a phenomenal sort of reaction we've got a 15-minute Standing Ovation yeah when you're sitting there for 15 minutes and they're still clapping I mean is that weird mortified why is it more that's lovely slash lovely beautiful yeah beautiful you look over at Martin McDonough who has really earned it like seven years on when he's not the first idea and he's saying oh yeah yeah so he was keeping it going and people do compare notes a little bit so there's a kind of a there's a competition but yeah it was a tradition with there's a there's a kind of thing where they know if they keep doing it uh that it will mean something yes this is kind of our favors um so it's so then it's a little bit odd because I said ah is the spontaneity coming out you don't want it orchestrated yes but it's not that it was coming from the heart and you could feel it was coming from the heart but they knew that by staying there and doing it it would get traction by having 50 on [Laughter] no it was beautiful because Venice really is about film and not business yeah and then we go to New York which is a little bit more hard bitten and there's a little bit of that and just the reaction that was coming across and what happens is it's a sundering it's not complicated by romantic or sexual love and it's both hope a breakup happens of somebody that's deeply embedded in who you see how you see yourself and all that and within the Ireland Community it kind of it has an impact on it it rips it's true everyone what what was so striking about and you can see it even in the backdrop here to our to our chat this evening is that the island as much as any as much as the actors in a way you say that respectfully had a deep presence like if you could cast you know almost for a nomination itself the islands the stone walls the fields the and then across the water on the mainland yeah Civil War of course like one of the most extraordinarily traumatic times of the nation's history but really what's mattering here was the the sundering as you call it Severance as you call it there's a lot going on here Brandon yeah I think it goes obviously you know I came out I've seen it three times now one that wasn't quite finished but uh each time you come away with something different and it's the second time I watched it I kind of said this is actually how how wars happened where there's something that I firmly believe and we're accused of of falling out over nothing which from one prism it is but it's deeply Central to to me yes and it's deeply centered it results in the consequences to him and so you can see how things once you get entrenched and all that and once you lose sight of so it what's been happening though is is where where people like we run Colbert yeah Stephen Colbert's uh late show and he talked about the kind of loss that he saw in it that he actually wrapped at a particular point because of a personal uh memory that went back into his life and it's been happening consistently with people at this stage from the four countries that we've been in so far where uh people both sexes people um of all ages that have seen it have they're personalizing the loss of something that was very deep that's friendship yes lost family relationships yeah there's a universal language in all of that yeah like Martin stop it's a very small story and as you mentioned it like the islands the world is epically shot it's hugely cinematic and it elevates a very very in one way small story into something that's and then it is odd how people are connecting with it in a universal way and not always specifically about anything in particular other than just that separation I had same with the crew yeah like the crew if you if you don't think that the crew on a film set or your first audience you're not starting from the place of respect telling a story that you should be starting from and so with that in mind you know the crew went from being the audience to being players in the story as well I mean we'd go into the makeup trailer and we wear makeup uh in the morning and light makeup and or look Carol who's doing makeup and Lenny who was doing the hair they'd inevitably organically end up telling the stories about their upbringing their lives and relatives they had and certain members of their family that were from the West certain hardships that were experienced there was a kind of a sense a communal sense that grew throughout the whole experience very quickly it happened very quickly and it got deeper to the point where I was knackered by the end of us yeah because we were all sharing a really intense experience and there was love and there was hope and there was as you said the personality personalization of the story was happening for everyone in their own little intimate ways some of which they shared and some of which people of course to themselves we got um I got loads of emails this week from when people heard you were coming on the show to the radio program to say that they were extras on this movie oh yeah yeah and they said that they became a family and one woman said that she got really upset in a really nice way I didn't mean it she was standing beside another extra who said I knew your father and they had this lovely intimate conversation then you signed a cornflake packet for another woman and the two of you you know so they're absolutely I remember that do you remember that yeah yeah yeah um and again this donkey I don't want to talk about Jenny I want to talk about Jenny's getting enough press because Jenny is getting a lot of attention yeah look at her with her little red ribbon on her Bell there's a dog a horse and a donkey so you're like Francis of Assisi in this film at one stage yeah with knee pads on and shoulders how did you get on with this one grand until she kicked me the one day but I got too close it was my own fault I I I I I misjudged her need for personal space apparently yeah very very American over considering she's from the West herself but uh she was great she was brilliant it was her first film and she was just extraordinary yeah and animals are awesome they're more honesty exactly they're more honest than us humans you know they don't they don't really have subterfuge and they don't have you know they're not plotting yeah I mean they're plotting for food sometimes yeah yeah but that's pretty honest as well you know they're not really deceitful so to have them around it's amazing because a film set is it an environment not unlike here where people know what their jobs are and it's a bit of control and you've got to maintain a system and a bit of a rhythm and all that kind of stuff but um a donkey comes in and all goes everything [Laughter] you know and you're just you're at the animal's whim so you're kind of working with the animal and you can't you know and I loved I was talking to Barry kogan recently ah yeah the radio and he was saying I said have you got another McCollum and he said the nicest things about you as a mentor and he said you're like a brother figure to him and he said that um the batons well he said that he was he was annoying you because he kept eating your crunchy corn for the crunchy no conflict he did eat me crunching up his flakes yeah did he yeah he lived with me during the film and you know I'd come in the morning and the [ __ ] place was like raccoons had been there there would be I'm not joking there was one more and I came in and it was like excuse me French it's like a piss take right I came in and there was a carton of milk and the carton of milk was on its side and was empty but there was a lovely puddle of milk right in the floor it was like somebody said how can we piss him off okay put the milk on the side put a bottle on the floor get the cereal have some soggy little bits of flakes on the bottom let that be the last of us and then so I saw the milk I saw the bowl of cereal that was on the camera it wasn't in the sink where it should have been and I had the Soggy Corn Flakes and then I went and remembered I had milk in the fridge so that's ground I got the milk from the fridge got a bowl out grab the cornflake box crunchy nut and it was very light and there was the plastic thing that the cornflakes has kept in and he had emptied the Corn Flakes and put the plastic bag back ah yes an Irish boy an Irish boy okay yeah okay you know one of those things where you go look I'm not I'm not asking for much this isn't about an actor who's demanding her private jets or any of that [ __ ] I just want a bowl of crunch in a cornflakes in the morning God look but it was it was it was amazing really because we all yeah he's the best you know and he's an extraordinary talent and a heart the size of you know yeah the island it's amazing it's amazing yeah he's brilliant knockout he's brilliant so much time from an effect there's uh you know it goes beyond what he has is beyond words really really yeah yeah because we were just talking about it kind of pointed out at one point the length of time that Martin stays on his face and the whole world passes written on his face you know without saying a word he's extraordinary I love as well it was kind of lovely it was good you know we we gave each other plenty of space but I'd come home and the two of us were hopping Off the Wall I was trying to I'm not here we have to leave her there congratulations on the movie thanks here's to whatever happens Awards look who I mean good luck with the dog yeah we I think everyone in this country is very pretty and and we're just so happy to see you here tonight glad you're here great to be home but movie like this on the big screen for a song fair play thank you both just hang on there for one second as always great to see you Okay and like I was saying to the fellas that firm that's a great movie and to see who I'm sharing this shot with yeah I know yeah he's a donkey so uh Barry kilgan we mentioned is just great and but also the Kerry condon's excellent oh my God and John Kenny back together again so well done to everybody involved and all the extras and everybody involved behind the scenes great stuff and great to see Irish talent doing so well [Music] thank you

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Length: 18min 40sec (1120 seconds)

Published: Fri Mar 03 2023