Fionnula Flanagan

I think one of the things about Ireland is that you just buy a TV license, you know, and then you buy into all of the streaming services.

But yeah, I like that.

I think it's opened up.

When I first went to the US, the system was that if you worked in television…

you didn't do movies.

You absolutely couldn't break into movies.

And similarly, people who did movies didn't do TV.

And then the long forms really changed that.

The long forms of television changed that.

But it was a long time coming.

Oh, yes, definitely changed for the better.

You know, it's, yeah, I think the first film that I did was, it was an Irish film, actually, and it was called Some Mother's Son and all about the hunger strike in the North.

And so Jim Sheridan gave me my break.

Gave you a break.

Well they probably paid her a lot of money.

to do the crossover.

Oh, yes.

Oh, absolutely.

I mean, as I say, it was the long forms that broke that.

You know, once you did a series of any kind, then that broke it and you could then do movies.