Martin Doyle

But the film adaptation as well, it's got a huge poignancy.

There's also a real sense of time passing.

There's an elderly...

woman, a relation of the lead character who sings a song and her voice is extremely frail.

But there is a beauty in that frailty.

You know, I don't know if anyone who's at Paul Simon or who saw Leonard Cohen, these singers late in life who, you know, their voice is past its peak.

But there is an added poignancy, I think, in the frailty of age alongside the magnificence of the work.

Yeah.

I just, you know, I just love everything they do.

Like recently, um, I rewatched the, the big Lebowski, Bowski.

And I don't know.

Um,

I've got, I don't know, I love a sense of humour and I think they've got that in spades, a kind of a black sense of humour.

There's always brilliant characterisation.

You know, their thrillers undercut are actually enhanced by a brilliant comic timing and it just hits the spot for me.

Like, you know, he's one of these actors who's never done a bad film.

Going right the way back, I'm not sure which is the first one of his I saw, probably My Left Foot.

His portrayal of Christy Brown was astounding.

Did that win an Oscar?

It did.