‘I really didn’t imagine a film career for myself’ – The Irish Times

Alison Oliver leaps up from the couch and merrily yells out my name. We had both, apparently, been wondering if, four years ago, I was the first journalist ever to interview her. So it seems. “Your name just popped up and I thought, yeah, I think that was the first one,” she says, bubbling. I … Read more

Less 120 Days of Sodom, more Carry on Heathcliff – The Irish Times

“Wuthering Heights”      Director: Emerald Fennell Cert: 15A Starring: Margot Robbie, Jacob Elordi, Hong Chau, Shazad Latif, Alison Oliver, Martin Clunes, Ewan Mitchell Running Time: 2 hrs 16 mins By the time we learned that Warner Bros was to render the title of Emerald Fennell’s “Wuthering Heights” within quotation marks, the … Read more

Tom Vaughan-Lawlor admits the time was right to give Ireland a break from Nidge – The Irish Times

By the end of Love/Hate, Tom Vaughan‑Lawlor knew things were getting out of hand. “I was on the front cover of The Irish Times twice in one week,” he says, laughing. “Maybe it was time to give the Irish people a break.” Vaughan‑Lawlor was a character actor who had worked largely in theatre when he … Read more