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And I didn't know how entangled that was with the motion picture you'd seen.

the single biggest strength I think is that what we're all I mean maybe we should talk about the two lead performances Hardwick and then we'll get on to Coogan as Mick McCarthy but Hardwick in so much as I think anyone could realistically be expected to do so pulls off Roy Keane he was absolutely incredible like when you saw the trailer it doesn't give much of his part away a little bit of his confrontation with McCarthy at the end it's more Steve Coogan doing the talking and it's quite easy to do a Mick McCarthy impression like we've seen on that very match like so he nailed that kind of the voice pretty well but like

If that performance isn't good, this movie is unwatchable.

If he doesn't bring a 9 out of 10, which he does, the movie just completely falls flat because so much of it is his intensity and it's not played cartoonishly.

He earns his two massive blow-ups in the movie, the final one with Mick McCarthy and the one in the training pitch, which is kind of quietly one of the best parts of the movie, actually, I thought as well, when the keepers are going in and he's like...

what the fuck is going on?

Like, he captures those two moments expertly because the rest of the time when he's fuming, he's seething silently.

It's funny, it's also like, say the lines.

So some of those sentences he utters, we have heard, you know, described by other people in the room, you know, stick your world cup up your arse.

You know, you were a shit player, a shit manager.

I'm paraphrasing some of them, I don't want to call them verbatim, but you were kind of waiting like, oh, he's going to say this part.

And when he calls him the C word, I'm not going to obviously repeat that, but that was another thing that we had kind of been told over the years from bits and pieces, these are some of the things he had said.

So it was kind of funny to see that being acted out.

And I actually thought those little scenes with the wife who actually played that really well.

Because we know nothing about Roy Keane's wife.

For a man who's so public, we actually are kind of guessing what...

what's Roy Keane's wife really like?

I thought those scenes were actually very important anchors as to him as a person to ground him, to not make him a cartoon character.

How unintimidated she was.

How utterly bored by his bristling she was.