that. You can plan and plan and plan, but the magic comes in that unpredictable moment.
Something that happens a lot when Irish people watch Irish film is that they will critique the geography...
I do it all the time! How did he transport from Phibsborough out to Dalkey? You realise particularly when you are shooting that it's because of logistics. Because we were there that day and we had to. But it's absolutely the case. Now that I live in London, and the better I get to know the place the more I do it now with London and with British TV. "Wait a second, that's there and now they are over there!" I think that happens with any place you know intimately and something is filmed there. You just get to criticise the implausibility of it. That's the nature of shooting.
It must have been nice to be able to film in that part of Dublin. And show it kind of differently on screen.
It was. It was amazing. They were locations that I had written for and the locals were really inviting. And the neighbours were lovely where we shot. It was really nice. There was a real boyhood glee in seeing zombies running down those streets and running past the Four Courts and shooting around those locations. In making this film that you would normally see set somewhere else, set in the city, in Dublin. Dublin is very much a part, a character in this film in many ways, which is something that we are very proud of. It was a great privilege that we got such a welcoming invite from the various locations that allowed us to shoot.
It ends on an open question so will you return?
No more zombies! We always said the film is Senan's redemption and I think that it is that journey to redemption. It's slightly ambiguous but it's a hopeful ending and there's a sense of redemption, without giving any thing away!
The Cured is out now in cinemas nationwide.
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