After a half-decade of working on the script for Herself by herself, Clare Dunne had a thought: "Fuck my ego. I just need to get this thing made." Herself follows Sandra (played by Dunne), a willful young mother of two who leaves an abusive relationship and, faced with Ireland's housing crisis, decides to build her own home.
Dunne's grounded (and exhaustively researched) performance makes every scene seem achingly relatable. Starting in 2014, Dunne — then a stage actor in London — furiously studied Ireland's housing shortage, met with Women's Aid, the Irish agency working against domestic violence, and secured development funding from Screen Ireland.
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