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‘Bring Them Down’ Director Christopher Andrews on Losing Paul Mescal — but Gaining Barry Keoghan — for His Irish Thriller: ‘We Struck Lucky’
‘Bring Them Down’ director Christopher Andrews on losing Paul Mescal for his tense Irish thriller but gaining Barry Keoghan
But that wasn’t the only element the debut director switched around with great effect in his Mubi-backed feature, also starring Christopher Abbott and diving into an escalating conflict between two rival sheep farming families in rural Ireland. As Andrews — whose previous experience include working in the camera department for the first three seasons of “Shameless” — explains, he went to great lengths to give it local authenticity, with much of the film actually spoken in Irish (and most of it by Abbott, one of few Irishmen in the cast) Speaking to Variety, Andrews discusses landing Keoghan just as his star power skyrocketed following “The Banshees of Inisherin, how Abbott’s Irish convinced a local and the trials of creating a field full of dead sheep.
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