Irish Eye on Hollywood Liam Cunningham is an Irish actor to look out for as fall approaches He h
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Liam Cunningham is an Irish actor to look out for as fall approaches. He has built up an impressive resume of Irish and British movies, including Ken Loach's provocative Irish Civil War Epic The Wind that Shakes the Barley as well as Breakfast on Pluto, in which Cunningham co-starred with fellow Irish actor Cillian Murphy. Cunningham's most recent appearance was in the summer horror movie The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor starring Brendan Fraser.
Keep an eye out for Cunningham in Hunger, director Steve McQueen's riveting depiction of the Northern Ireland hunger strikes which made a global icon out of Bobby Sands (played by German-born, Irish-reared actor Michael Fassbender). Cunningham plays a priest in Hunger, which has been a smash hit on the cinema festival circuits - including Cannes, where it picked up a top award for first time movie makers - but does not yet have a U.S. release date.
In October, Cunningham is also slated to appear in Blood: The Last Vampire, set at a U.S. military compound in Japan, which has been taken over by vampires.
Believe it or not, Colin Farrell is currently shooting a film which also has a military as well as vampire angle. Farrell will star in Triage, which is shooting in Dublin. The film also stars Paz Vega, and it is about a war photographer sent to Kurdistan, only to watch his best friend die. While attempting to cope with this loss, he befriends his girlfriend's grandfather, who may have a dark war secret of his own in his past. Farrell is also serving as a producer on Triage.
What could possibly be the vampire angle to Triage? Well, among the film's co-stars is horror veteran Christopher Lee, who played the most famous vampire of them all, Count Dracula, in a 1950s version of the bloodsucker story. A final Colin Farrell note: the much-anticipated New York Irish cop epic Pride and Glory, featuring Farrell and Edward Norton and directed by Gavin O'Connor, is slated for an October 24 release.
