window.dataLayer[0].user.meteredResetDate = meteredResetDate; Naturally, we couldnt help but learn more about him: 1. window.dataLayer.push({ subscriptionStartDate: '1111-11-11T11:11:11Z', Assuredly these did not involve his work with Jordan. }; premium_content_redirect_url: 'https://subscribe.independent.ie/welcome/premium/', brand: 'INM', He majored in English literature at Queen's University, Belfast, and began his acting career at the hallowed Abbey Theater there. meteredAccess: purchase.metered_paywall, Bloom: Directed by Sean Walsh. The film, with its themes of trans-sexualism and IRA violence, had an unusual box-office gestation. return !! In the pandemic, especially in the early part, we planted trees in the garden and we were together 24 hours a day. } const isNumber = function (evt) { } He later trained at the Abbey Theatre School selectedPrice = getBundleById(event.detail.object.id); }; const script = document.createElement('script'); document.getElementById(tabPrefix + '-tabs').querySelectorAll('a[toggle]').forEach(function (tab) { listenForGigyaEvents(); eventCategory: 'hd_flow', The other night we watched the new run of The Den, which they had watched when they were little kids. I didn\u0026#039;t begrudge him but I thought that if anyone should have got it, it should have been Denzel Washington [for Malcolm X], but they weren\u0026#039;t ready to give a black actor the Best Actor Oscar at that particular point.\u0026amp;quot;Still, there was some consolation, as Rea became \u0026amp;quot;a gay rights icon, for about five minutes\u0026amp;quot;.\u0026amp;quot;After the film came out, I was in New York, there was a Gay Pride march going down Fifth Avenue toward Washington Square Park, and they saw me and they started chanting my name. window.dataLayer[0].user.meteredPaywall = meteredPaywall; Greta is a 2018 psychological thriller film directed by Neil Jordan and written by Ray Wright and Jordan. eventCallback: function () { } Stephen Rea ( / re / ray; born 31 October 1946) is an Irish film and stage actor. const subscribeButton = el.querySelector('.button1:not([style^="display: none"])'); There's no plan on how to deal with them.". return 'epaper-access'; label: 'login', The Break: Directed by Robert Dornhelm. return charCode > 31 && (charCode < 48 || charCode > 57) ? if (mutation.type === 'childList' && element.id === 'flip-pay') { const isUpgrades = false; j=d.createElement(s),dl=l!='dataLayer'? And believe me, I had been waiting a long time for that.\u0026amp;quot;Rea has a quietly melancholic way of speaking that is leavened with a keen sense of the absurd, especially when he gets onto the subject of politics. vars.article.wallVisible = ! A city's life force is . const ecommerceTransactionEvent = { const meterStatsCookieData = JSON.stringify({ } } Save to myFT September 20. return price; return; if (Array.isArray(event.detail.object.upgrade_prices) && event.detail.object.upgrade_prices.length > 0) { } talented, (4/10/04-6/24/04) Stage: Appeared (as "Cyrano") in "Cyrano de Bergerac" by. In a future British dystopian society, a shadowy freedom fighter, known only by the alias of "V", plots to overthrow the tyrannical government - with the help of a young woman. However, he says he now spends as much time as possible in Donegal with his two sons. }); He appeared in many television shows and theatre productions before venturing into films as well. }); Dowd, who's IRA, escapes an Irish prison in a bloody jailbreak, making his way to New York City where he lives alone, avoids Irish hangouts, and works as a dishwasher. } bundle: bundleValue, ['gallery', 'lightbox'].forEach(function (namespace) { } [13] They had been divorced when she died on 23 January 2013. } else { price.placeholder_prices.map(priceToEcommerceProduct) Reas career isn't limited to the big and small screens. (returnURL || member_redirect)) { eventLabel = 'sunday'; Perhaps I'm wrong I would not put it past me to limp on to the transfiguration, but I do not think so.". }; I've done some movies that I thought were a mess.". gigyaID: getCookie('guid'), var contract = 'contract_bundle'; premium_content_redirect_url: premium_content_redirect_url, } userID: cookieData.userID, vars.user.gigyaID = gigyaID || ''; ", His own parents are both dead, but his mother lived to see his great success. if (element.id === 'gigya-verification-sent-screen') { fontSmoothing: 'antialiased', }); granted_by_purchase: purchase } return item.value; }; if (!hash) { localStorage.removeItem('product_click_source'); showPremiumBadge(node); }; event: '_trackEvent', plans.forEach(showPremiumBadge); coupon_applied: couponCodeUsed(purchase) ? 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There\u0026#039;s no plan on how to deal with them.\u0026amp;quot;Miche\u00e1l Martin is, he believes, determined to prevent a united Ireland. }); wallVisible: 'false' user: { ", Hinting at hidden depths of humanity, finding sympathy in the inherently unsympathetic, has always been Rea's understated genius. const meteredModal = document.getElementById('c-modal1'); purchase.coupon_applied : null, In 2020, The Irish Times ranked Rea the 13th greatest Irish film actor of all time. }); } subtree: true, attributes: true, Get all the latest from Sanditon on GBH Passport, How one Brookline studio helps artists with disabilities thrive. document.querySelectorAll('[data-'+namespace+']').forEach(function (el) { So begins his quest to avenge them. window.dataLayer.push({ The film stars Isabelle Huppert, Chlo Grace Moretz, Maika Monroe, Colm Feore and Stephen Rea, and follows a young woman as she befriends a lonely widow who becomes disturbingly obsessed with her.. Greta held its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival on 6 September 2018. delivery_days: price.delivery_days || [], \u0026amp;quot;The atmosphere was sectarian at the time but that was being changed by people like Eamonn McCann. 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