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\nHokum is in Irish cinemas on Friday<\/p>\n
Adam Scott has spoken about his fondness for West Cork, where he filmed his recent supernatural horror film Hokum.<\/p>\n
Scott, 53, best known for his roles in the dystopian drama Severance and the sitcom Parks And Recreation, plays Ohm Bauman, the protagonist of Irish writer-director Damian McCarthy\u2019s latest feature.<\/p>\n
Hokum follows Bauman, an American novelist who travels to a remote part of Ireland to scatter his deceased parents\u2019 ashes only to discover that his hotel may be haunted.<\/p>\n
\nHokum is in Irish cinemas on Friday<\/p>\n
Disturbing visions and a shocking disappearance cause him to confront the darkest corners of his past.<\/p>\n
Scott, who was the only American actor on set, praised the professionalism of the Irish crew and the beauty of the country.<\/p>\n
The film was shot at West Cork Film Studios and also stars Peter Coonan, known for Bad Sisters and Love\/Hate, and David Wilmot, who appeared in Hamnet.<\/p>\n
“West Cork, and Skibbereen specifically, is one of the most beautiful places in the world,” Scott told the Press Association.<\/p>\n
“Whenever we weren\u2019t working, I was staying on this really cool estate that\u2019s been turned into a hotel, the Liss Ard Estate.<\/p>\n
“When I had time, I would just get lost in the grounds. I walked those grounds probably 30 times over the couple of months we were there. It is just beautiful. I could lose myself in West Cork and stay there for months and months.”<\/p>\n
Speaking about the Irish crew, he said: “The crew that Damian works with is unbelievable and everyone is so nice and smart. Ireland is a place to go and a place to stay as far as I\u2019m concerned.”<\/p>\n
Hokum is one of a number of horror films recently made in Ireland. Lee Cronin\u2019s The Mummy, which stars Jack Reynor was filmed in Ireland and Spain.<\/p>\n
McCarthy, who has also written and directed Caveat and Oddity, said Ireland was a great setting for a horror film because of the country\u2019s rich history of myths and legends.<\/p>\n
“I guess it\u2019s a fact that it\u2019s such an old country, and when you\u2019re in school learning all about these myths, legends and folklore, you realise it really is that island of storytellers, with such a rich history,” the West Cork-born filmmaker said.<\/p>\n
“A lot of the horror coming out of it now is probably from people who grew up in the \u201980s watching John Carpenter films and Steven Spielberg movies, and who are now, as adults, turning what they loved as kids into their own stories.”<\/p>\n
Hokum is in Irish cinemas on Friday.<\/p>\n
Source: Press Association<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Adam Scott has spoken about his fondness for West Cork, where he filmed his recent supernatural horror film…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":422071,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[321,93,61,60],"class_list":["post-422070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422070","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=422070"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422070\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/422071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=422070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=422070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=422070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}