Friday, 9 January 2015

Domhnall Gleeson: ‘I’m done talking about Star Wars’

Luckily, the rising young star of Frank, Anna Karenina and About Time has plenty to say about his other new sci-fi movie, the gripping AI thriller Ex Machina


Domhnall Gleeson has seen the future and he has the fear. In the keep-like cellar restaurant of a Dublin hotel, mild panic sets in as a fleeting mention of the Film That Cannot Be Discussed escapes his lips, the one that is set in a galaxy far, far away. The Irish actor has been listing his extracurricular activities – the short he’s written and directed with his actor-brother Brian and actor-father Brendan, the online sketch series he’s created called Immatürity For Charity, and the feature-length script that he’d get round to finishing, if only film-makers such as the Coens and Alejandro Iñárritu didn’t keep calling with job offers. But he blows it when he brings up the music video that he and Brian starred in for the band Squarehead last November. “We did it for fun over the summer, I was on a break from Star Wars. And it just went really well, we got an amazing reaction to it.” Star Wars? He squirms as my eyes light up, and I can’t help myself.


“Domhnall, are you Luke Skywalker’s son?”


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