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Because we were sharing quite personal stories and everyone at times was being very vulnerable, immediately there was a bond between all of us. “He was like the wizard from Oz, pulling on the levers without any of us quite realizing. “In his master genius way, I think he was pulling out things he wanted us to start thinking about that he wanted to be bled into our performances - without saying, ‘This is what I want you to do,’” Balfe says. One of the first days on set, Branagh sat Balfe, Dornan, Dench and Hinds around a massive table - for social distancing - and invited them to speak about their experiences growing up and their recollections of their parents. While Branagh wrote “Belfast” based loosely on his own upbringing, the director wanted his cast, which also includes Judi Dench and Ciarán Hinds, to draw on their own memories. Just how tough it must have been for them.” I thought about my mom a lot while filming this. All of that definitely resonated with me in a different way. But left her really tightknit community of sisters - they all lived very close to each other down near Kildare. “Only a little more than a decade after this time we moved to the border because of my dad’s job because things had escalated in that 10 years to the point where it was really like a war zone. “The circumstances are very different, but the timing is similar,” Balfe recalls. Caitríona Balfe on personal connections to her role in “Belfast” Just how tough it must have been for them.

In the film, Balfe plays Ma, a hardworking woman raising two boys in 1969 Belfast while her husband, Pa (played by Jamie Dornan), commutes to England to earn a living. Her father worked as a police sergeant and her mother was responsible for raising Balfe and her four siblings - an experience that feels related to the circumstances depicted in “Belfast,” which is now playing in theaters nationwide.

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The actress describes her hometown as a “small, one-horse town” (it didn’t even have a movie theater) and she remembers going back and forth between Ireland and Northern Ireland throughout her childhood.

It pulls something a little bit different from you when you’re doing something that is so personal or has that personal tie.”īalfe grew up about 90 minutes from Belfast, on the other side of the Ireland border, in Monaghan. Being part of something like this touches you in a different place. Even though that accent is not my own accent, it’s very close. But it’s something I’m always looking for. “Technically, I still have not worked in Ireland as an actor,” Balfe laughs as she reflects on the film, which shot in Surrey, England, last fall. After filming Kenneth Branagh’s semi-autobiographical drama “Belfast,” about a young boy growing up in Northern Ireland during the Troubles, the 42-year-old actress is still waiting. 'You know, there's so many times where you would go into castings or even fittings for jobs that you already supposedly had and somebody in the room would just be annihilating how you look or your lack of personality or you talk too much.' Catriona Balfe Pic: GettyĬatriona also admitted that at some points in her career she was asked to take her top off, but was thankful that she always had good people around her.Ĭatriona admits that she is happy she came out of it the other side, as she is now a successful actress.Caitríona Balfe has been waiting her entire career to be offered a project in Ireland. I think, as a young woman in your teens and twenties, that’s really hard, it's hard enough anyway.

'There was always people doing better and constantly being compared to people. Caitriona Balfe in her modelling days with Lindsay Frimodt and Alessandra Ambrosio Pic: Wire But then at the same time, you have to be so skinny and so androgynous. She continued: 'You're supposed to automatically be this fun, interesting, edgy person that fashion people want to be around. Caitriona said she believes that the dying of her hair was to make her look more Irish and stand out: 'There's so many different aspects of it.'

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