Journalist/Broadcaster/Author
Unless otherwise stated, film interviews have previously appeared in Cara magazine.
When you can get a word in edgeways, Aisling Bea (born O’Sullivan) might just take notice of what you say and engage with you. Otherwise, this most charming and talkative London-based Kildare comedian/actor/writer will carry on chatting. This is a default setting, she advises you, brought about when you are raised in a … Read more Interview: Aisling Bea
Ruth Negga looks so compact and anchored sitting in a large sofa chair, covered from neck to toe in very stylish, dark clothes, that she seems like a small statue in need of sightseers or admirers. Certainly, the Irish-Ethiopian actor has no shortage of the latter, as her profile has risen so much in … Read more Interview – Ruth Negga
An actor’s life might not have been the most obvious choice for Wexford’s Charlotte ‘Charlie’ Murphy – her parents owned a hair salon, the wonderfully named Scissors Empire, and up to her late teenage years she and her siblings worked part-time in the family business, folding towels and sweeping up leftover locks. Destiny, however, … Read more Interview – Charlie Murphy
Rebecca Miller knows that people will want to ask her questions about her father (the Pulitzer Prize-winning American playwright Arthur Miller) and her husband (triple Oscar-winning, British-Irish citizen, Daniel Day-Lewis), but that doesn’t mean to say she’s going to listen to, let alone answer, them. We met several months ago in Dublin, when she … Read more Interview: Rebecca Miller
We don’t like to say we told you so, but, well – we told you so… As far back as 2007, when 13-year-old Saoirse Ronan was nominated for an Academy Award for her role in Atonement (the film adaptation by director Joe Wright of Ian McEwan’s 2001 shortlisted Booker Prize novel), the writing wasn’t … Read more Interview: Saoirse Ronan (2015)
“I’m in support of people expressing themselves artistically, regardless of their background, of what their day job is. I think singers should be able to sculpt, actors should be able to sing and politicians should to be able to knit if they want to. What’s wrong with that?” Nothing at all, John Christopher … Read more Interview: John C. Reilly
Pity the comic actor or stand-up comedian that has to go about their daily routine secure in the knowledge that at some point in their day they will come face-to-face with a member of the public. And not just an ordinary member of the public, but one who is an avid fan, and whose … Read more Interview: Will Ferrell
We’re guessing that you’re familiar with the face, but you just can’t place it in a movie or TV show. You think Antonia Campbell-Hughes might have played an elf in one or all of the Lord Of The Rings movies, but instinctively decide against it. No, you feel, she looks as if she’d be … Read more Interview: Antonia Campbell-Hughes