Jim Sheridan
Jim Sheridan
Jim Sheridanis an Irish film director. A six-time Academy Award nominee, Sheridan is perhaps best known for his films My Left Foot, In the Name of the Father, The Field and In America...
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Everybody was wearing bulletproof vests. But I've filmed in Belfast; you get used to it, you know? I never felt threatened on the set.
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I kind of grew up in a neighborhood like that, so I felt I knew 50, ... to go inside the ghetto and see what's the cause of the rage.
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I had that feeling the minute I met him that I could do a movie about somebody coming back from the dead, ... One of the times when I was getting a little hyperbolic and melodramatic, I wrote down, 'A black-gangster Jesus with the wounds to prove it.'
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It was like I'd known him for a hundred years.
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At the end of the movie people will wonder: Is this the real 50 Cent? Has he changed? Is he acting a part? All three are true,
liked music rap
I've liked rap music for 10, 15 years,
everybody lost nobody saying stop
I was going to everybody and saying, 'You've got to stop this,' and nobody was saying no, so I just lost my head.
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We were always walking the line between reality and fiction.
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I just knew his world. It was like the world I grew up in in Dublin. I knew gangsters and drugs and I was even in a band. It was like he was a long lost brother.
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He was very good. Very charismatic, funny, relaxed. I think he could do another movie. And he was able to show vulnerability, totally different from the image in the rap world.
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He works very, very hard - he's determined, very focused and has huge self-esteem,
city government
I thought city government was bad. It doesn't have anything on FEMA.
himself secrets
He's funny, he doesn't take himself too seriously. I think that's one of the secrets of his success, that it's a contradictory image.
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He had a Muhammad Ali-kind of self-confidence, ... There's something in that culture, that if you're very confident, very expressive, you must be close to death. Because for hundreds of years, you weren't allowed to be like that. So when you repress people, and they can't express their natural soul and you keep them back and push them down, down, down -- you're going to get the diamonds that come up. And 50's one of them. He's like Muhammad Ali.