Kerry Condon: Train Dreams "is an emotional experience!"

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The Banshees of Inisherin star returned to London Film Fest with another critically acclaimed period drama. Report by Nelsonj. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn

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00:00Welcome back to the Millennium Film Festival.

00:02What's it like to be bringing another movie to this fine city?

00:06Getting involved in all the madness of this festival, what it brings.

00:09How are you feeling about it?

00:11Well, I'm really proud of the movie,

00:13so it's always nice when you really are proud of the movie,

00:16like I was with Banshees.

00:17This is a beautiful movie,

00:19and its nature is a big part of this movie,

00:22similar to Banshees.

00:23It was a big draw for me.

00:25But I always like coming back to London,

00:27because I started my career in London.

00:29So it's always nice.

00:31Tell me about this, about Train Dreams now.

00:33For people unfamiliar with the book,

00:36I've read, well, it's been incredibly critically accamed,

00:39and it seems like this wonderful kind of think piece on kind of America,

00:43such a crucial time in its kind of development.

00:46What has it meant to you,

00:48and what has interested you in it to get you involved?

00:51There was a lot of themes in the movie that I was drawn to.

00:56There was a lot of grief, and again, the nature aspect,

00:59and how we kind of destroy nature to progress as a society,

01:03and what's the cost of progression.

01:05And those themes are still relevant today,

01:08with technology and everything.

01:10But it was also Joel Edgerton,

01:12because that part's quite a difficult part.

01:15So you really need a great actor in that role.

01:18And I knew Joel was going to play the lead when I signed on,

01:21and my part was written as she feels like an old friend.

01:26And Joel and I worked together when I was a teenager on a movie,

01:30Ned Kelly, a long time ago.

01:31That's a great movie. I definitely saw that one.

01:33Yeah. So that was a part of the draw.

01:36And then Clint had done a movie called Jockey

01:39that was shot beautifully with the same DP.

01:42Plus, I have X-ray sources,

01:44and I pretend I'm a jockey in my free time.

01:46Who's the guy who was in Jockey?

01:48That looks beautiful. I didn't catch that.

01:49And he's got a small part in this movie also.

01:52Yeah, yeah.

01:54What do you think it is about at the moment?

01:56Clifton Collins.

01:57Clifton Collins, that's one, yeah.

01:59He's one of those kind of seam stealers.

02:01You see him so much.

02:02Great face.

02:03So great to see him get his own kind of project to lead when that came out.

02:06It feels like there's a real resurgence at the moment

02:09of these kind of mid-budget, demi-style,

02:13how would I describe them?

02:16Just the kind of dialogue-driven, beautifully shot sort of movies

02:20that I kind of grew up with.

02:22There was a lot made in the early 90s and into the mid-noughties.

02:25And it sort of died off because of big budget blockbusters there.

02:29And it seems to be kind of driven by the streamers at the moment.

02:32I guess from an actor's perspective,

02:34it's just you're just pleased that these kind of scripts are still being made

02:37and these stories are still being told.

02:39Yeah, I don't know if they did die off, though.

02:42You know, a lot of my career was a lot of those movies.

02:45It's just they don't all make traction because not all movies are great.

02:48So you don't necessarily hear about them all because, you know,

02:51for a great movie to work, there's a lot of factors that have to work.

02:55So it's kind of hard to make a great movie.

02:58So I'm glad that this one is sort of rising because I feel like it is.

03:03I feel like all the different departments on this movie are really strong.

03:07Plus it was made, you know, it was a labour of love for everybody.

03:10You know, it wasn't like a big payday for all of us.

03:13We just all thought it was great and wanted to be in it.

03:16Finally, the big question that draws is there is kind of a limited release

03:20to a lot of these films, but people can sit and wait and watch them

03:23in their own living rooms.

03:25What is the thing that should get people off their seats and out of the houses

03:28and into the cinema to watch this story unfold, do you think?

03:32Look, I'm aware that the price of a cinema ticket is expensive, like for a lot of people.

03:37It's an ask, you know, to go to the cinema.

03:39That's not even including like the popcorn or whatever.

03:42So, you know, it has to be an experience if I'm going to go to the cinema,

03:46either, you know, in whatever way you describe.

03:49And this is an experience.

03:50It's kind of an emotional experience.

03:52It's very moving and not just the grief.

03:55It's moving in a very spiritual way.

03:58So that's what draws me to the cinema, if it's going to be an experience.

04:02Otherwise, I'll just, you know, watch it at home.

04:04There's nothing wrong with watching at home either.

04:06There's nothing wrong with it.

04:07But I agree.

04:08When you get in there and you're with people side by side,

04:10in the dark and your phone's off, there's nothing quite like it.

04:12And since my little ones came along, I'm all up for anything that's going to make me cry.

04:16So this is going to be perfect.

04:17Well, you're going to, yeah, you'll be on the floor.

04:19Yeah.

04:20Great to see you.

04:21Thanks very much.

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