“Irish audiences have flocked to this film and really feel like they know these characters,” the ‘Quiet Girl’ director tells VF. “They feel like they lived this Ireland.”
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Still, the use of Irish made it difficult to find someone to play Cáit. The search took seven months and Bairéad and his team held hundreds of open auditions even before the COVID lockdown, when they resorted to watching tapes of the young actors. Then he saw Clinch, who was 10 during her audition and 11 by the time filming began. “She just had this innate understanding of the character,” he says.
Mimicking Keegan’s prose, which is written in the first person, Bairéad wanted to stick with Cáit’s perspective throughout the film.
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