With over 50 speaking parts, Intermission is a big movie, and it crucially lacks the one strong hero that makes it a star vehicle. "It's an unusual script and the marketing people had a real difficulty with it because it doesn't fall into any one genre."
"It took a long time to get funding," agrees Moloney, who is on set, while Jordan and Woolley are at the Toronto Film Festival for the premiere of their film, The Good Thief. Once you start to unravel the story behind this rare Irish production, with its A-list Irish cast from Farrell, Colm Meaney and Cillian Murphy, to Ger Ryan, Owen Roe, Pat Laffan and Michael McElhatton, all threads seem to lead to the theatre.
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Yet for all its unmistakable movie qualities, this particular production, Intermission, is one project that owes a lot more to the stage than it does to Hollywood. A gouger in a tracksuit, with a furious black eye and a ritzy line in gold rings, hands his pastel coffee mug to a girl in 7-inch platform boots, saying apologetically, "would you mind holding on to this? I promised I wouldn't lose it." The gouger is actor Colin Farrell, last seen by most people persecuting Tom Cruise in Steven Spielberg's Minority Report. The assistant director frantically stops the crew from smoking in a bar full of piped-in cigarette smoke. All the hall-of-mirrors tricks are there - like the grimy windows built out of plywood and glass, just two metres inside the near-identical real windows. The lounge of the Bray Head Inn couldn't be anything other than a movie set right now. Currently being shot in Bray, Co Wicklow, Intermission is that rare thing - an Irish film.
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