“You think back to the start of your career, when it’s so impossible to make films,” she says. Biancheri can scarcely believe they got there. The rising Lily-Rose Depp (yes, daughter of Johnny Depp and Vanessa Paradis) is also on board. George MacKay, Paddy Considine and Fionn O’Shea star in the story of a man who believes he is a wolf trapped in human form. Like everyone else in 2020, they were hit by the pandemic, but they persevered, and Wolf, Biancheri’s second feature as director, has now made it to a rough cut. You know when you meet someone and you think: this person has something.” “I moved to London at 17 and then, at some point, we ended up in Dublin. But my father was Russian-Italian and my mother was German-Italian,” she says. She and Jessie Fisk run Feline, among the most interesting of Irish production companies, but her roots are from all over. You have your mates around you.”īiancheri is living embodiment of the internationalism that now characterises the Irish film industry. “But a lot of the crew that I worked with on Red Rock were there.
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The series was shot at home in Ireland, but it must be daunting to enter the Netflix empire? “If it gets into your head the countries that it’s going to that can make it feel quite big,” she says. “I am a soldier in this academy in the fairy world,” she tells me. I think: where am I now?” Next up, the world can see her in Netflix original fantasy series Fate: The Winx Saga. “There are so many things online that ask you for your address.
“I am a bit of a vagabond,” she says, laughing. Appropriately enough, Minto made her contribution from Athens. As we spoke, she was preparing for the rehearsed reading of Antigone, adapted by Colin Murphy, that streamed late last year. Minto has already staked out territory with a role on the hit series Red Rock. She was raised on the northside of Dublin and is a proud alumna of the National Youth Theatre. The bookmakers are dragging in the odds on Leah Minto becoming the next Irish actor to achieve full-on star status. “It was him narrating Bruce Springsteen’s life because he looked a bit like him.” Carney describes her as a “genuine revelation” and dares to compare her to Judy Garland. Did she get it from her dad? “He had a Bruce Springsteen one-man show for a few years,” she remembers. The musical will return and she is currently shooting an episode of Carney’s delightful anthology series Modern Love for Amazon Prime. We thought maybe it would be a couple of weeks. Two minutes later we were told that was it. “I walked on to the stage for a cast meeting.
“That was the day we saw the big theatre,” she says.
The young Tyrone woman – already noticed in The Glass Menagerie at The Gate and in Hecuba for Rough Magic – was just about to start a technical run for the Broadway adaptation of John Carney’s hit 2016 film Sing Street. Many actors have endured unhappy circumstances during lockdown, but few had quite such a jolt as Zara Devlin. The hottest young talent set to make waves in the worlds of politics, fashion, food, sport, activism, art, film and TV, sustainability, entrepreneurism and music Film and TV, by Donald Clarke
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