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Colin Morgan won’t forget the shoot of award-winning Irish film Parked in a hurry: “We had 21 days, which was initially the main challenge for everyone. We were filming in January 2010, which, as people will remember, was one of the coldest winters we’ve ever experienced.”
Cold weather aside, it was a wonderful experience for the Armagh-born actor: “We had a great group of people. Darragh O’Byrne the director is a very passionate guy, he had worked on this project for several years with his friend Ciaran Creagh. As I read it, I fell in love with it too, I felt passionate about the characters and getting the chance to work on it was fantastic. When you love something so much and you get given the chance to do it justice, hopefully, you have got to grab it with both hands.”
Morgan plays Cathal, a drug addict, who along with Colm Meaney’s character, Fred, is living out of his car. He explained how he prepared for the role: “Prior to filming, we had done a lot of research; Darragh and myself went to a drugs rehabilitation centre and got a lot of the technicalities about drug users and drug use. So when we got started up, we felt that we were pretty much on the ball.”
“Getting to work with Colm was for me a huge delight. He’s an acting legend and working with him in such close proximity was fantastic and we worked really well together. It flew by, it was such a quick shoot – tough and challenging but in the end I think it was very successful.”
The legendary Bryan Ferry and Grammy award-winning soul singer Joss Stone are among the line-up for a special programme to mark the centenary of the sinking of the Titanic.
Titanic: A Commemoration in Music and Film will be broadcast live on BBC Two on 14 April, 100 years after the ill-fated liner hit an iceberg.
The 90-minute event is being stage at Belfast’s Waterfront Hall, just across the river from the Harland & Wolff ship yard, where the liner was built.
Archive and specially commissioned documentary material, accompanied by stunning visual effects, will re-tell the story of the ship, those who built her and those who perished or survived.
Others confirmed for the event include Charlie Siem, one of the UK’s brightest new classical stars and acclaimed English tenor Alfie Boe.
Armagh-born actor Colin Morgan, who stars in the BBC One series, Merlin, and Belfast actor Ian McElhinney will also take part.
“Packing two terrific performances and a quirky independent spirit, Byrne’s bittersweet coming-of-middle-age comedy is an unexpected treat. 4 stars” Total Film
Directed by Darragh Byrne, Starring Colm Meaney (The Van) and Colin Morgan (Merlin)
Fred (Colm Meaney, The Snapper), has fallen on hard times and finds himself living in his car with little hope of improving his situation. That all changes when he forms an unlikely friendship with Cathal (Colin Morgan, Merlin), a dope-smoking 21-year-old with a positive attitude, and his new ‘neighbour’ in the Dublin car park they call home.
Cathal is determined to help Fred sort his life out. He modifies his car, helps him sign on the dole and make a friend in Jules, an attractive music teacher. But as Fred struggles with his pride to tell Jules about his ‘home’, and Cathal’s drug habit spirals out of control, their friendships are tested as their lives change forever.
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