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Fair City [News, Spoilers and Discussion v2]
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I just saw this in the times... interview with Pat Nolan who plays Barry.. It was a holiday feature before you ask
Pat Nolan - actor
What’s your earliest holiday memory?
Vienna with the boy scouts in 1970 aged 12. We travelled overland through London and Calais. We camped on the outskirts of the city beside
an amusement park. We thought we had died and gone to heaven. It started a whole connection with Vienna for me.
What was your worst holiday?
I can’t recall any major holiday disasters, I kind of go with the flow.
What was your best holiday?
My wife is American, so we go to San Francisco regularly and I love it. I lived over there for six months, so know my way around. It has some of my favourite record shops and my brother-in-law is a musician, so we see some great bands.
Although it wasn’t a holiday I had a great trip riding a Harley-Davidson on Route 66 for charity last year. It was great to see some of middle America.
But my most important holiday was Vienna (again) in 1981 and what came out of it was to change my life. I took leave of absence from the post office to work in a theatre there. I did everything from making sets and acting three nights a week to pouring the wine.
I wanted to immerse myself in theatre (as I was doing it in my spare time at home) and see what I thought at the end. It only set my fire for acting. I met my wife while I was there. When I came home I resigned from my job.
If budget or work were no restriction, what would be your dream holiday?
Paris and Rome as I’ve never been to either, then back to Vienna before ending up in Greece. I always wanted to go to Greece as I love history and theatre and would rather go and see a good ruin than lie on the beach all day.
Who would you bring on holiday with you if you had your pick?
My motorbike! It gives you a great sense of freedom and everything is thrown at you – the smells, the feelings, the wind. Afterwards, your brain is trying to catch up on all the things you’ve seen.
What’s your favourite place in Ireland?
Many years ago I went to Kerry and it rained for the week – I swore I would never go on holidays in Ireland again. But then I worked on a film in Clifden and it was like heaven. The sun was shining, the scenery was beautiful and it completely changed me back around to staycations, once you get the weather.
Your recommended holiday reading?
I always bring books and scripts with me and I somehow never get around to reading them as I tend to keep moving on holiday.
Where will you go to next?
I’ve no plans at the moment, but living in Wicklow I’ve beautiful walks on my doorsteps. Myself and my wife are threatening to go to Greece, so we may just book on an impulse.
- Fair City actor Pat Nolan stars in Our Father at the New Theatre, Dublin, from September 12th-17th as part of Absolut Fringe. See fringefest.com0 -
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Ah now, the acting was dodgy tonight.
The hilarious thing is, we filmed a short film in college involving a police interrogation scene. The acting and the setting were as good as, if not better than, the scene in Fair City. And ours was done by a bunch of amateurs for no money and with only two lads who'd ever acted before.
Puts the hundreds of thousands pumped into Fair City to shame. 0 -
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IsMiseLisa wrote: »Puts the hundreds of thousands two grubby fivers and half a ham sandwich pumped into Fair City to shame.
FYP.
Throw up a link to your film there, and let's up the viewing figures. Do you have it online?0 -
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Long Room Hubba wrote: »FYP.
Throw up a link to your film there, and let's up the viewing figures. Do you have it online?
Ah, that one's not online, though we have another one up? Tis about a British lad infiltrating the IRA after the RA kill his brother during the Troubles.
It's fairly rubbish now, but none of the lads had ever acted before and the whole thing but the opening in a field were filmed in the studio - which is pretty much a blank room with three cameras in it.
It's quite good for a student production. We did everything ourselves in ten hours, with no budget, no sets, no actors, no editing, and as our second project in first year.
We were well proud of the pub scene and the shed scene. We literally had to beg, steal and borrow everything in there. One of the lads brought an old motorbike into the college and they had to carry it through the library. Got a few funny looks that day.
Be warned: it's ten minutes long. The acting is bad, and the accents are even worse.
Be gentle, eh.
CLICK FOR DODGY SHORT FILM.
P.S. should also mention, if you're wondering why it's so dark it's 'cause the film was massive and to get it on youtube, it had to be compressed big time.0 -
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For all those who like Caoimhe in that nurses outfit
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