Tristan Heanue: 'I worked as a double for James Franco' 

The Irish actor stars in new crime thriller Broken Law, after taking a long route that involved building sites and door-to-door sales jobs before finally making his breakthrough
Tristan Heanue: 'I worked as a double for James Franco' 
Tristan Heanue in Broken Law.

Tristan Heanue got his first taste of the movie business in his early twenties when Hollywood came to his native Connemara. 

Romantic drama Tristan & Isolde was filming in the west, and Heanue landed a job doubling for an up-and-coming actor by the name of James Franco. This means he would stand in for the actor during the setting up of scenes"

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