{"id":151584,"date":"2025-11-21T07:59:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-21T07:59:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/151584\/"},"modified":"2025-11-21T07:59:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T07:59:10","slug":"john-kelly-when-i-graduated-i-made-a-film-that-did-better-than-expected-suddenly-i-was-viewed-as-a-director-it-opened-all-these-mad-doors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/151584\/","title":{"rendered":"John Kelly: \u2018When I graduated, I made a film that did better than expected. Suddenly, I was viewed as a director, it opened all these mad doors\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">\nJust Saying\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"John Kelly has worked with George Clooney in a film for the UN. Photo: Linda Brownlee\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/b82c63da-19f6-48f2-9dcd-15c7c67c09e0.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">John Kelly has worked with George Clooney in a film for the UN. Photo: Linda Brownlee<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Filmmaker and animator John Kelly (45), is the director of the award-winning animated short \u2018Retirement Plan\u2019, voiced by Domhnall Gleeson, which is in contention for an Academy Award shortlist. He lives in Dublin with his wife and two children, aged eight and 10.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">My dad was a chemical engineer teaching at UCD, and my mum was a homemaker. They kind of had a very neat arrangement of one child, then two years later another child, then two years later another child \u2013 then a six-year gap. I was labelled god\u2019s little surprise. I have two brothers and one sister. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Just Saying John Kelly has worked with George Clooney in a film for the UN. Photo: Linda Brownlee&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":151585,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[321,93,61,60,898],"class_list":{"0":"post-151584","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-celebrities","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-latest-news-ticker"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151584","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=151584"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151584\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/151585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}