NBC has picked up drama pilot The Irrational, starring Jesse L. Martin, to series.
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Kerry Condon was thrilled to hear that writer-director Martin McDonagh wanted to return to his Irish roots with The Banshees of Inisherin. The actress reunited with McDonagh for the film after working with him on Three Billboards Outside of Ebbing, Missouri as well as his plays The Lieutenant of Inishmore and The Cripple of Inishmaan.
Speaking at Deadline’s Contenders LA3C panel, Condon discussed reteaming with the director on a film that encapsulates a range of deep-rooted emotions.
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McDonagh had been working on Banshees for several years, even speaking with Condon about the concept before she appeared in 2017’s Three Billboards. When he decided to circle back to the script and make it his follow-up to the Best Picture Oscar-nominated film, Condon knew it was a fairly ambitious undertaking.
“After Three Billboards, he was trying to debate what he was going to do next,” she said. “That’s the thing you don’t think about, like when something does really well it’s kind of like, ‘Oh, now I have to follow this.’ That’s kind of a tricky position to be in. He said, ‘I think I want to revisit that Irish script again,’ and obviously I was thrilled because I knew there was a part for me in it. And because the Irish plays, I felt, were so brilliant and not a lot of people had seen them.”
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Her co-stars Brendan Gleeson and Colin Farrell had worked together on McDonagh’s 2008 film In Bruges, making Condon the newcomer of sorts — though she’d already worked with the director on other projects.
“I was working with Martin before he was so famous,” she said, joking. “In fairness, the
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