Interview Quotes

On Being an Irish Girl and Musical Talents

"Guinness only in Ireland, I would say."

— SPEAKER_01 • 00:00:18

"I would love to go to a pub with you because I know you're Irish, but also don't you know how to like play the piano and play the harp?"

— SPEAKER_00 • 00:00:30

"I wear my harp on my sleeve."

— SPEAKER_01 • 00:00:42

The Magic of Harp Camp

"Um, well, firstly, it's in a place called Tirmafecken in a town called Drogheda."

— SPEAKER_01 • 00:01:08

"It was so fun. Like, we'd kind of do classes in the morning, and then you'd meet in the evening, and you'd have a kind of jam, a harp jam."

— SPEAKER_01 • 00:01:27

"Oh, there was, like, a kind of hot harp teacher."

— SPEAKER_01 • 00:01:54

"Um, he taught jazz harp, and he had leather trousers on."

— SPEAKER_01 • 00:01:59

Clarifying Cat Allegiances

"I want to just tell cat lovers that I actually auditioned to be a cat once."

— SPEAKER_01 • 00:03:02

"And honestly, I think I'm probably a quarter cat and three quarters dog."

— SPEAKER_01 • 00:03:22

"You're 100%. You're absolutely a dog."

— SPEAKER_00 • 00:03:31

The Infamous "Cats" Audition

"Well, how would you be a cat? Like, and I was, like, living with, um, flatmates at the time who do, like, proper jobs, like, working for social councils and stuff like that."

— SPEAKER_01 • 00:03:57

"And he's got this incredibly sleek, terrifyingly, like, minimalist studio. And when you don't know how to be a cat in the first instance, when you've got nothing around you..."

— SPEAKER_01 • 00:04:12

"I was, like, licking my paws. I was, like, trying to make leaps."

— SPEAKER_01 • 00:04:25

"And, um, obviously, I didn't get it."

— SPEAKER_01 • 00:04:37

Accolades and Connections

"You've won over 40 awards for Hamnet, okay? You've won a BAFTA, a Critics' Choice Award, a Golden Globe. You just won an Actor Award this past Sunday, and you're nominated for an Oscar for Best Lead Actress. Jesse Butler!"

— SPEAKER_00 • 00:04:56

"Yeah, I've made some really great friends. Um, like, Tiana Taylor, I love. She's so fun. She's unbelievable."

— SPEAKER_01 • 00:05:10

"The whole category is insane. Insane."

— SPEAKER_00 • 00:05:23

The Unconventional Bride of Frankenstein

"No, I actually arrived back with, like, bleached eyebrows, bleached everything. Yeah."

— SPEAKER_01 • 00:06:04

"It was such a trip. You know, at the core of it, it's about love, about the misfits, about the monstrousness in us all."

— SPEAKER_01 • 00:06:25

"And she was like, right, The Bride of Frankenstein. What is that?"

— SPEAKER_01 • 00:06:34

"And he gets a different kind of wild wife. Not just a nice wife, but one that starts a revolution, and the two of them fall into a kind of mad Bonnie and Clyde rampage across America."

— SPEAKER_01 • 00:07:16

"Yeah. It's fantastic. It's so great. So entertaining, and you crush it. You're really, really great."

— SPEAKER_00 • 00:07:27

"I am a monster. Yeah. So am I."

— SPEAKER_01 • 00:07:40