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Brendan Gleeson for public interview at the Galway Film Fleadh
The Galway Film Fleadh has announced that Brendan Gleeson will be the subject of the public interview on Sunday 11th July at 3:00pm. He will be replacing Annette Bening who, due to unforeseen circumstances, is unfortunately no longer able to attend.
Brendan Gleeson has acted in such films as Braveheart, I Went Down, Michael Collins, Gangs of New York, Cold Mountain, 28 Days Later, Troy, Kingdom of Heaven, Lake Placid, Artificial Intelligence: AI and The Village. He won critical acclaim for his performance as Irish gangster Martin Cahill in John Boorman’s 1998 film The General.
While Gleeson portrayed Irish statesman Michael Collins in The Treaty, he later portrayed Collins’ close collaborator Liam Tobin in the film Michael Collins with Liam Neeson taking the role of Collins. Gleeson later went on to portray Collins’ one-time nemesis Winston Churchill in Into the Storm. Gleeson won an Emmy Award for his performance. Gleeson played Hogwarts professor Mad-Eye Moody in the fourth and fifth Harry Potter films, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire and Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. Gleeson is set to appear in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows part I, reprising his role of Mad-Eye. His son, Domhnall will be playing Bill Weasley in the film.
In his review of In Bruges, Roger Ebert described the elder Gleeson as having a “noble shambles of a face and the heft of a boxer gone to seed”, in which Gleeson played a mentor-like figure for Colin Farrell’s hitman, a role that garnered him his first Golden Globe nomination, among other accolades. Gleeson provided the voice of Abbot Cellach in The Secret of Kells, an animated film co-directed by Tomm Moore and Nora Twomey of Cartoon Saloon which was nominated for an Oscar earlier this year. Gleeson starred in the short film Six Shooter in 2006, which won an Academy Award for Best Live Action Short. This film was written by Martin McDonagh who also wrote the screenplay for In Bruges.
Gleeson will be making his directorial debut in a film adaptation of Flann O’Brien’s novel At Swim Two Birds. The Irish production company Parallel Pictures will produce the film with a budget of $11 million. Colin Farrell, Gabriel Byrne, and Cillian Murphy have been attached to star in the film, which is set for release in 2010.
