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<\/p>\nJustine Mitchell, who co-stars in RT\u00c9\u2019s new black comedy These Sacred Vows, said she was \u201cobsessed\u201d with the Maggie O\u2019Farrell book of the same name.<\/p>\n
On Buckley, who has already won a Golden Globe for her part as Agnes Shakespeare, she was \u201cjust amazing to work with. I can\u2019t describe how wonderful she is,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
The film adaptation is sweeping the boards this season, with Buckley picking up a Bafta nomination this week.<\/p>\n
We just trusted her immediately. So it felt very special<\/p>\n
Director Chloe Zhao was also nominated for two Oscars for Best Director and Best Adapted Screenplay and Mitchell said she was wonderful to work with.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was of great interest to me. How do you translate a book into film? Logistically, Chloe had really thought it through. When you meet her, she is magnetic, she is sparkling, she is funny as hell,\u201d Mitchell said.<\/p>\n
\u201cBeing on set was really funny and very light. She\u2019s just charming and brilliant. We just trusted her immediately. So it felt very special and we were just hoping it could be like the book.<\/p>\n
\u201cMaggie O\u2019Farrell put it succinctly. She said the movie is the fraternal twin of the book, and I thought that was perfect.\u201d<\/p>\n
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Jessie Buckley is a strong favourite to win Best Actress at the Oscars for her performance in ‘Hamnet’. Photo: Getty<\/p>\n
These Sacred Vows starts this Sunday on RT\u00c9 One and Mitchell is one of the big names featured in the six-part series co-starring Tom Vaughan-Lawlor. In a far cry from his character of Nidge on Love\/Hate, he plays a timid priest named Fr Vincent, who\u2019s seen lying dead in a villa pool in the first episode.<\/p>\n
Written and directed by award-winner John Butler, it\u2019s set on the sunny island of Tenerife and staged around a lavish Irish wedding. Mitchell plays Sandra, the mother of the bride who, despite her glossy exterior, is hiding a deep secret.<\/p>\n
\u201cShe\u2019s all smooth on the outside but a hot, stinking mess on the inside \u2013 like the rest of the cast,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
O\u2019Mara lived in LA for 20 years before returning to Ireland and said he put on 10kg<\/p>\n
\u201cNo actor can say no to that. It\u2019s so human and it\u2019s so funny and that mismatch always creates tension and comedy and drama.\u201d<\/p>\n
Jason O\u2019Mara plays the part of her wealthy husband Gerry. In a uniquely Irish twist, he has known Justine since his college days in Trinity College. He joked how they were the \u201cold people on the set\u201d, given its youthful cast, which also includes Aaron Heffernan.<\/p>\n
O\u2019Mara lived in LA for 20 years before returning to Ireland and said he put on 10kg to play the part of the golf-playing Gerry.<\/p>\n
A complex character, he said Gerry \u201crealises he wants something that he essentially can\u2019t have because of the way his life is set up\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think that\u2019s true of other characters as well. I can\u2019t speak for them but that\u2019s kind of the theme that runs throughout,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Each episode will feature a different character as the RT\u00c9 series revisits the key events from a wild week away.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Justine Mitchell, who co-stars in RT\u00c9\u2019s new black comedy These Sacred Vows, said she was \u201cobsessed\u201d with the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":269698,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[321,93,61,60,312,34252,2625,6085],"class_list":{"0":"post-269697","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-jessie-buckley","13":"tag-melanie-finn","14":"tag-oscars","15":"tag-rte"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269697","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=269697"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269697\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/269698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=269697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=269697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=269697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}