Clare Dunne

And I was like, I remember being like really gutted.

There was also another moment about a year later where a teacher had taught me in a PLC course once or something.

And I say this with absolute love and gratefulness in my heart.

Like, he really shot me down.

But it was a great test of my faith in the idea.

Yeah.

So what happened was, like, I talked out the idea to him and said, like, yeah, I'm just trying to figure out how to get funding and how to do this, that and the other and all this kind of crap.

And he just was like, well, I mean, you'll never make that film in Ireland.

It'll never happen.

Yeah.

No, that'd be like people, A, like they're not going to, they're not going to respond to that idea.

Like, and then, you know, this woman that does this against all odds, like it's very, you might have a chance if you go to England.

There's all this like, no, no, no, no, no, no, no vibe.

I think it was, it just felt like, it felt more like, here's a reality check, you're going to really struggle making this.

I don't know if he was saying the idea was bad.

I don't think it was that.

In a sense, he was saying it was all very meta.

Like, because Sandra is trying to do the impossible in the film on a level.

And then Claire was trying to do the impossible, making a film.

She's never been in one.