Belfast Film Festival World Premiere For ‘Ballywalter’, Actor Prasanna Puwanarajah’s First Feature; Seana Kerslake and Patrick Kielty Star
deadline.comEXCLUSIVE: Prasanna Puwanarajah as an actor has appeared in Doctor Foster: A Woman Scorned, Ten Percent and Patrick Melrose, and he’ll next pop up in two episodes of The Crown‘s upcoming fifth season portraying Martin Bashir, the controversial journalist who conducted the infamous BBC interview with Princess Diana.
However, on Thursday he’ll wear a different hat when the Belfast Film Festival opens with the world premiere of Ballywalter, which marks his feature directing debut.
The film stars Northern Irish comedian and presenter Patrick Kielty — husband of So You Think You Can Dance host Cat Deeley — in his first major acting role, as Shane, broken after the collapse of his marriage he chooses to rehabilitate by joining a stand-up comedy course; and Seana Kerslake’s Eileen, a sharp-tongued Ballywalter local who has moved back home with her mum and pregnant sister, and borrowed her exe’s battered Toyota to drive as an unlicensed taxi.
The two lonely souls meet when Shane books a regular cab, driven by Eileen, to ferry him to his lessons. He can’t tell a joke, while Eileen’s acidic one-liners are, unintentionally, hilarious.
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