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admin | Nov 25, 2021
Jamie Dornan and Caitríona Balfe find some joy in reliving ‘The Troubles’ in ‘Belfast’

For Jamie Dornan and Caitríona Balfe, making “Belfast” felt like coming home. When writer-director Kenneth Branagh approached the Irish actors about his new drama amid pandemic closures last year, it was an easy decision.

“It was a beautiful take on that place and the people who are from it at that time in history,” recalls Dornan, speaking with co-star Balfe during the London Film Festival. “There was so much very fast positivity around the whole idea of the project — who Ken was already talking to, the other cast. It just felt like this gift, really, that fell upon me.”

“I remember my agent calling me and saying, ‘Look, there’s this project and this is who’s doing it and who’s already attached,’” Balfe adds. “He was like, ‘I’m going to send it over for you to read.’ I was like, ‘I’m going to say yes before I read this.’ It’s such a beautiful script. The way Ken had written it, there was so much love in it and so much emotion. I had been looking for something to do in Ireland for quite a while — thinking we would film this in Ireland. Once I read the script, I was in tears by the end of it.”

“Belfast,” which actually filmed last fall in Surrey, England, is a deeply personal story for Branagh, who based the script on his own upbringing in Belfast during “The Troubles.” The film is set in 1969, as the 30-year Northern Ireland conflict began to affect the city’s communities. It follows a young boy named Buddy, played by Jude Hill, as he realizes his tightknit neighborhood might not be the safe haven he’s always known.

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admin | Nov 25, 2021
From ‘Outlander’ to ‘Belfast,’ Caitríona Balfe has learned you must ‘create your own destiny’

Caitríona Balfe has been waiting her entire career to be offered a project in Ireland. 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.

“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. “It’s really strange. But it’s something I’m always looking for. It was so lovely. Even though that accent is not my own accent, it’s very close. It’s one I’ve grown up listening to. Being part of something like this touches you in a different place. It pulls something a little bit different from you when you’re doing something that is so personal or has that personal tie.”

Balfe grew up about 90 minutes from Belfast, on the other side of the Ireland border, in Monaghan. 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.

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. 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.

“The circumstances are very different, but the timing is similar,” Balfe recalls. “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. But [my mom] left her really tightknit community of sisters — they all lived very close to each other down near Kildare. All of that definitely resonated with me in a different way. I thought about my mom a lot while filming this. Just how tough it must have been for them.”

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admin | Nov 25, 2021
‘Outlander’: Starz Sets Season 6 Return Date

Outlander will return with Season 6 at 9 p.m. Sunday, March 6, across all Starz platforms.

The news was revealed by Diana Gabaldon, author of the Outlander book series the historical drama is based on, at Monday’s launch of the ninth book in the series, Go Tell the Bees That I Am Gone.

Season 6, based on Gabaldon’s book A Breath of Snow and Ashes, picks up after the events of the fifth season that saw Claire Beauchamp (Caitríona Balfe) return to Fraser’s Ridge after escaping a violent encounter with Lionel Brown (Ned Dennehy).

She and her husband Jamie MacKenzie Fraser (Sam Heughan) now are striving to maintain peace and flourish within a society which — as Claire knows all too well— is unwittingly marching toward revolution.

Against this backdrop, Claire and Jamie have built a home together at Fraser’s Ridge and now must defend it as it was established on land granted to them by the Crown.

For the Frasers and their immediate family, “home” is more than simply a site in which they live, it is the place where they are laying the foundations for the rest of their lives.

Outlander is produced by Tall Ship Productions, Left Bank Pictures and Story Mining & Supply Company, in association with Sony Pictures Television. Ronald D. Moore, Matthew B. Roberts, Maril Davis, Toni Graphia, Andy Harries, and Jim Kohlberg executive produce. [Source]



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admin | Nov 19, 2021
Caitriona Balfe for Entertainment Weekly

Caitriona Balfe is featured in the December 2021 issue of Entertainment Weekly. You can go to the gallery to check out scans.

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admin | Nov 17, 2021
New photoshoot of Caitriona Balfe added

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admin | Nov 17, 2021
‘Belfast’s Caitriona Balfe had an uncanny start in ‘Devil Wears Prada’

Before you ever knew her face, you might’ve seen Caitriona Balfe’s feet.

The “Outlander” star got one of her first movie roles as an extra in 2006’s “The Devil Wears Prada,” dashing through New York in designer heels in the beloved Meryl Streep dramedy.

“It’s the opening scene where everybody’s walking in front of the (Runway magazine) building, which is when I think my feet might be in it,” Balfe recalls with a laugh. “I saw Meryl, but we weren’t hanging (on set). I don’t think we were allowed to get too close.”

Fifteen years later, Balfe joins the acting legend in the 2022 Oscar race, as both are contenders for best supporting actress: Streep for Netflix’s upcoming climate change satire “Don’t Look Up” (in theaters Dec. 10 and streaming Christmas Eve), and Balfe for coming-of-age tale “Belfast” (in theaters Friday), written and directed by Kenneth Branagh.

Awards pundits at Indiewire and Next Best Picture are calling Balfe a front-runner in the category, while “Belfast” is well-primed for a best picture nomination.

“The response to the film has been overwhelming,” says Branagh, praising Balfe for the compassion and intelligence she brought to her performance. “She has access to a certain kind of ferocity that my mother had. It’s an electrifying anger that makes you feel she could change the world.”

“Belfast” is inspired by Branagh’s childhood in 1960s Northern Ireland during the Troubles, a political and nationalistic clash between Catholics and Protestants that lasted three decades. Balfe plays the warm and unwavering Ma, who desperately wants her family to be able to stay in their benevolent Belfast neighborhood despite escalating violence. Continue reading  »



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admin | Nov 17, 2021
How Caitriona Balfe turned an intimate story of her homeland into her biggest role yet in Belfast

“It touches you in a different way when you’re doing something that is from your own people,” she tells EW.

On Outlander, Caitríona Balfe has spent five seasons dubbed “Sassenach,” a Scottish Gaelic word for an English person or outsider — but in Belfast, she’s anything but one: the Irish actress, 42, portrays a version of writer-director Kenneth Branagh’s mother.

Known simply as Ma and seen through the eyes of her 9-year-old son, Buddy (Jude Hill), she is struggling to raise and protect her two children in 1960s Belfast when the nationalist fighting known as the Troubles erupts, plunging their family and way of life into uncertainty.

“It was very present,” Balfe tells EW of the threat of violence that was a constant for her while growing up in the Republic of Ireland. “It was always on the news, and we had bomb scares in our town. Even though I didn’t grow up in Belfast or the North, it still felt very close.”

Balfe had long been searching for a story set in Ireland and was immediately touched by Branagh’s original script inspired by his own boyhood memories. “It touches you in a different way when you’re doing something that is from your own people,” she reflects. “Ma felt very familiar to me, and there were things about her struggle that I could relate to — things people in my family had gone through.”

Belfast doesn’t dwell on politics, but on the intimate impact a complex situation has on one family. “Very rarely do you get a script that deals with that kind of subject matter that isn’t in some way about the ideology,” she says. “I’d read so many scripts before that seemed to glorify one side or the other, and I wasn’t interested in being part of that conversation. This was something that really looked at the people and how everyday life was affected.” Continue reading  »



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admin | Nov 15, 2021
New photos of Caitriona Balfe added

I have added some new photos of Caitriona Balfe attending the ‘Belfast’ film screening in Los Angeles.

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admin | Nov 11, 2021
‘Belfast’ Interviews With Jamie Dornan, Caitriona Balfe, Ciarán Hinds & Jude Hill

The cast of Kenneth Branagh’s “Belfast” including Jamie Dornan, Caitriona Balfe, Ciarán Hinds and Jude Hill, join CinemaBlend to discuss the thrilling tale of restless 1960’s Ireland. They discuss the uncanny chemistry between Ma and Pa, the incredible set pieces, Jamie Dornan’s likely award-contending ballad, and more!



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