Domhnall Gleeson and his dad Brendan Gleeson ham it up just for laughs (INDEPENDENT)

By Ken Sweeney Entertainment Editor
Friday December 07 2012


ACTOR Domhnall Gleeson has revealed how he teamed up with his dad Brendan Gleeson for a one-off TV sketch show.

'Immaturity For Charity' has a better-known cast than some Irish movies, but all the actors who took part gave their services for free in aid of St Francis's Hospice, Raheny.

Novelist Amy Huberman and 'Love/Hate' star Robert Sheehan are among the stellar cast who feature in the 35-minute-long fundraising comedy, which will air on December 27 at 9:30pm on RTE2.

One standout sketch features Domhnall as a grown man waking up in bed to his parents, played by dad Brendan and mum, actress Cathy Belton, giving him the facts of life.

"Being 28, the son tells his parents he already knows about sex, yet they persist – but what makes it funny is their unusual view on the subject," Domhnall told the Irish Independent.

"Dad giving me the sex talk was hilariously awful and hilariously funny at the same time," he said.

"Rehearsing with him made me laugh more than anything else I have ever done."

Coincidentally, when his father picked up a Rising Star Award on behalf of his absent son Domhnall at the IFTAs last year, he joked he could never get his son out of bed as a boy.

READ MORE: http://www.independent.ie/entertainment/tv-radio/rude-awakening-domhnall-and-his-dad-brendan-ham-it-up-just-for-laughs-3318510.html

Irish Film and Television Rising Star Awards (the Journal)

Chris O'Dowd from Bridesmaids

THE IRISH FILM BOARD and the Irish Film and Television Awards have announced the four nominees for this year’s IFTA Rising Star Award.

The nominees are: actor Chris O’Dowd of Bridesmaids; John Michael McDonagh, the writer and director of 2011 hit Irish film The Guard; actor Emmett Scanlan of Charlie Casanova; and Rebecca Daly, who wrote and directed The Other Side of Sleep.

John Michael McDonagh, centre, phographed with Liam Cunningham, Don Cheadle, Katarina Cas and Brendan Gleeson of The Guard

“All opposition must be crushed,” he added. “Especially Chris O’Dowd, who will be starring with Brendan Gleeson in my next film late this year. If he wins, his role will have to be recast.”
“I’m that vindictive.”

Meanwhile, O’Dowd said he was especially looking forward to the awards night and the “glorious shindig in the big schmoke”. He also asked if he could meet Bosco.

IFTA’s chief executive Áine Moriarty said that the Rising Star category spotlights “great Irish talent making a significant mark in the film industry at large” and described each of this year’s four nominees as “world class talents in their respective fields”.

The winner will be announced during the IFTAs on 11 February.


http://www.thejournal.ie/all-opposition-must-be-crushed-ifta-nominee-sets-sights-on-rising-star-award-330730-Jan2012/