What a Difference a Day Makes: Actor Damian Kearney on The Wind That Shakes The Barley
Actor Damian Kearney tells Helen O’Callaghan about the day he learned he had been cast in The Wind That Shakes the Barley, and how getting the part changed the trajectory of his life.
Actor Damian Kearney, photographed in Cork. Pic: Larry Cummins
I learned I had my part in The Wind That Shakes the Barley sitting in a pub in Highgate, North London, in April 2005.
It was a bit of an awkward one. I’d been for my third round auditions and I was with a great friend who’d also attended the auditions. So it was all ‘any news yet’, and we decided we’d have lunch out.
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