He got each of us to tell in about 10 minutes each the story of our childhood. He did a simple exercise the first time we met all together at a big table. “It was about the spirit of them, the nature of these people, who they were. ![]() “We agreed to meet somewhere in the middle with no specific number in mind,” said Hinds. ![]() And in ’69, it was the most economically depressed city in the whole of the U.K.”įrom the start, Branagh made it clear that Hinds and his old theater colleague Judi Dench, who is eight years older than Hinds, were not expected to impersonate his real grandparents. They had to be tough and stoic because that was Belfast at that time. The script took Hinds “back to his roots,” he said, “deeply back into my own culture, the colors of the characters, the rhythm of the language, the sly, soft humor, the toughness of the people - but not hard. ![]() “Really,” Hinds told Branagh, “I’m far too young to play your grandfather.” ![]() The two men had met on the theater circuit, but had never worked together before Branagh sent Hinds the autobiographical 1969 screenplay he wrote during lockdown.
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