Byzantium marks return to vampire genre for director Jordan

Byzantium, partly filmed in Ireland, is Neil Jordan’s second film in the genre he has loved since Bram Stoker’s home first spooked him as a child, says Marc O’Sullivan

NEIL Jordan is laid up. A traffic accident in Dublin in April has left him with an injured leg, and he is conducting interviews for his new film, Byzantium, from a sofa at Fitzpatrick’s Hotel in Dalkey.

Home is nearby, on the prestigious Sorrento Terrace. He also has a house outside Castletownbere, on the Beara peninsula in West Cork, where he filmed Ondine in 2009, and where he also shot the wilderness scenes in Byzantium, which is set in the English seaside town of Hastings.