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It is award season and you have been nominated and the film has been really critically well reviewed.
I mean did you imagine that this weird under the radar kind of curmudgeonly both of you.
Christiane, I'm I'm 61 and three quarter years old I've never been nominated or award for anything in my whole life and I've now got 20 of them on my shelf.
How does it feel? I mean it's extraordinary.
You go for something that took me 20 days to shoot and the rest of the movie is 26 days in total that this should be good, this should have happened is extraordinary but you know we keep meeting people that said this movie made us feel something we care for these characters so.
Because loneliness is also the theme obviously you know that sort of forgery and all of that, but this loneliness is is really I think the theme of it and how you both try to comfort each other. They're lonely and they're failures so you well would spend an evening with two people doing that but you know people seem to people have responded very positively to wanting to see it.
And as you said we haven't even got to the BAFTAs.
We haven't got to the Oscars yet.
Yeah. So you know you're on your own a good run.
So you also have an amazing back story.
You grew up in Swaziland.
Your father was a major personality in the education system there but he was also an alcoholic and you are not embarrassed or shy about talking about it.
You've talked quite a lot about how difficult it was growing up in that kind of environment. And of course you play an alcoholic in this character.
And ironically I'm allergic to alcohol I thought was psychosomatic but I found it when I was 17, no enzymes in my system so I cannot keep alcohol down whatsoever.
But I think that's what I saw the toxic price that my father paid and we paid as a family by keeping all that secret and so I've made a movie about it 14 years ago in which Gabriel Byrne played my father the wonderfully.
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Yeah. So I feel very very strongly that secrets like that ultimately toxic so in talking about them, you know problem aired is problems shared that old cliche but I really believe in that and it's saved me and it's connected me with other people who are in the same situation.