Clare Dunne

like I think I'd fucking done like a shitty student short at some point like I couldn't get into the film industry like I really couldn't so it was just really weird for me you know so I had to just believe in it anyway I just remember going I was living with my parents at the time because I was in a moment of like not being able to rent somewhere I remember going back and my mum was like how are you doing Claire I was like yeah I'm going I'm just going to go upstairs and

And I went upstairs and I remember lying on the bed and proper deep crying for a good while and like really, really crying because I felt like somebody had just said like this thing that you've been nurturing for a year on your own without any support anyway.

Yeah, like it's just not going to happen.

I had no money.

I had no work as an actor.

I think I didn't work for a year straight at one point there.

And that was a real test.

Like it'd be different for me now because I'm kind of like a bit more stable.

I've had a bit of screen work.

I could manage if I didn't work for 10 months now or 11 months.

I'd psychologically be able for it.

But this is when I was still trying to get into something or feel more secure in my life.

And my God, like, I don't know why, but I'll never forget that.

Like, I cried and cried until, you know, it was like raising face.

You know, when you're just like, I needed to fucking really cry it out.

And then I went downstairs and I remember my mom was in the kitchen and she was just like, I'll just make some lunch here.

Do you want some?

And I was like, yeah, I don't know if I can really eat.

And she was like, yeah, all right.

And I was like, ah, yeah.