Ciaran Hinds
Ciaran Hinds
Ciarán Hindsis an Irish film, television and stage actor. He has built a reputation as a versatile character actor appearing in such high-profile films as Road to Perdition, The Phantom of the Opera, Munich, There Will Be Blood, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2, The Woman in Black, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance and Frozen...
NationalityIrish
ProfessionTV Actor
Date of Birth9 February 1953
CityBelfast, Northern Ireland
CountryIreland
Christianity has its own superstition, anyway: Why you turn three times, what this saint means, why you pray to the patron saint of lost causes, why you go this way or that way.
Grief is exhausting. When you learn - maybe through my age or experience - trying to harness the energy, whatever it is, muted energy or a concentration to find yourself in a place? You try to use it for when it's really necessary and can arrive.
You try to work with the director and your fellow actors to get somewhere, but other people are the judge of whether you hit that note right.
Stuntwork... once, I've really only done one thing, which is take a punch and transport myself into the air onto a mat.
For all the acting you can do, the actual soul of someone does somehow permeate through their work.
I don't think I'm very fashionable. I drink a fair amount of Barry's Tea, from Cork - but might that be fashionable? I don't know.
When I was young I read 'L'Etranger' by Camus, and it made me aware of the strangeness of life.
When you find somebody who doesn't give and take, you go, 'Remind me never to work with you again.'
It's so tough to get movies made in Ireland anymore. A whole generation of Irish filmmakers doesn't have the resources to get a movie made.
I've got a fairly low profile - I go and do me shopping when I need to!
I've got a wonky nose. Is it classical, is it not? That's what's hard work, getting down into the nitty-gritty of who are the human beings behind the front of what they present?
No nation can claim, 'We are an uncorrupt nation, therefore we will tell you what the morals of democracy are.'
Conflict sometimes produces results, but more often than not it produces confusion at the level of everybody on the same track.
I quite enjoy more teamwork and offering something up into the mix.