Look who it is!’ They brought me in and, no joke, I was on the television.”The Riordans: Gabriel Byrne, as Pat Barry, with John Cowley, who played Tom RiordanBut The Usual Suspects? “Dublin prepared me for Hollywood. ‘What the f**k are you looking at?’ Nobody ever said that in Hollywood.”There is enormous, heart-straining affection for Dublin throughout Walking with Ghosts. Born in 1950, Byrne grew up in a poor country that was struggling to connect with the modern world. Who do you think you are?”With all that pressure to be ordinary, it shouldn’t surprise us that Gabriel didn’t take to the stage until he was closing in on 30.

Source: The Irish Times November 14, 2020 04:52 UTC