He is, in fact, Australian star James Frecheville and taking on the responsibility of playing an Irishman in the first ever film set against the backdrop of the Famine is not something he took lightly. Co-star and fellow Aussie, Hugo Weaving, was also on board early on after he read the script while working on another film in Australia with Black 47 producer Macdara Kelleher. "How do you tell a story about such a traumatic even tin Irish history which still reverberates today? Watching as an Irish person, there is a sense of retribution of sorts, played out through the fantasy of a film. "There are ways in which we can retain our spirit and I think that's what Lance has done.

Source: Irish Independent September 08, 2018 10:18 UTC