Holed up in Bolivia

Stephen Rea plays a detective who dreams of arresting Butch Cassidy in the atmospheric western, Blackthorn, says Pádraic Killeen

FAMED for his languid disposition on stage and screen, Irish actor Stephen Rea is laid back in real life too. The Belfast man is eloquent, but speaks in a slow yet measured canter, and his tranquil voice seldom diverts from a default setting of ‘hushed tone’.

Little wonder many of the characters Rea has played have been melancholy.