Jamie Dornan and Caitriona Balfe sat down with British Vogue to talk about their film “Belfast”, which has earned them awards buzz.
For the publication’s February issue, the Irish stars discuss growing up in the country dubbed the “Emerald Isle”, the important meaning behind the film, and what they hope the younger generation will take from it. READ MORE: Caitríona Balfe Reacts To Jamie Dornan And Ciarán Hinds SAG Award Snubs Dornan, who actually grew up in Belfast in the 1980s and ’90s, recalled his youth. “If you’re born there, and you’re raised there, you’re very cognizant of the fact that you are from a very complicated place,” he said. “From the day I was born, until the day I left, people pretty much were fighting a civil war.” Balfe noted her own experience living in the Republic of Ireland, right on the border, in Monaghan. “A very IRA-leaning area.
But my dad was a police sergeant — that’s why we were there — so we were brought up very apolitical.” READ MORE: ‘Belfast’, ‘West Side Story’ Lead 2022 Critics Choice Awards Film Nominations Dornan and Balfe both acknowledged that, as children, they were unaware of the idea of “sides,” of division, for much of their day-to-day lives. “I always think back to stuff that became normal, that was not normal.
Like trying to meet your mates on Saturday afternoons in town and there’d been a bomb scare,” Dornan said. “I remember we used to go weekly shopping in the north, and you would go through checkpoints at least once a week.
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