On today's podcast I had the privilege of speaking with Irish actor Diarmuid Noyes, the co-lead of the movie 'Christy', which has been winning awards in Ireland and abroad and rave reviews from movie critics everywhere.

Diarmuid plays the character Shane in the movie brilliantly, as he wrestles with the job of trying to steer his brother Christy on the right path and at the same time, not to derail his own life.

Diarmuid talks in detail about the huge preparation that goes into getting a part like this right, the process around the whole movie and the special bond that has grown between the novice actors and the more experienced actors like himself and Emma Willis, who played his wife Stacey in the movie.

He has been acting since he was nine years of age, a career shaped in some ways by a crush on Mary Kate Olsen and personal circumstances, and even now he still finds this crazy profession challenging.

Diarmuid is extremely humble, finds praise a difficult thing to accept and for some strange reason he gives himself too hard a time.

Yes Diarmuid, you are a brilliant actor.

Enjoy the show...

Christy opens in Irish cinemas on the 29th August, and in Britain from the 5th September.

The book I referred to at the end of the podcast is called The Surrender Experiment.

Podcast Production by Greg Canty

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