{"id":453146,"date":"2026-05-17T07:43:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-17T07:43:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/453146\/"},"modified":"2026-05-17T07:43:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-17T07:43:10","slug":"power-ballad-director-john-carney-i-dont-really-care-that-much-about-films-i-dont-see-myself-as-an-urgent-filmmaker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/453146\/","title":{"rendered":"Power Ballad director John Carney: \u2018I don\u2019t really care that much about films \u2013\u00a0I don\u2019t see myself as an urgent\u00a0filmmaker\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\">\u2018Power Ballad\u2019 director on fame, fatherhood,  and how streaming has changed filmmaking\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Film Director John Carney at home in May 2026. Photo: Steve Humphreys\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/4cd6fd08-eb0f-46da-a862-3f6fe895e384.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)\">Film Director John Carney at home in May 2026. Photo: Steve Humphreys<\/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)\">John Carney\u2019s phone is ringing. We\u2019re in an elegant meeting room at the Westbury Hotel, just around the corner from the chatty afternoon tea drinkers, and Carney \u2013 one of the most celebrated filmmakers in Ireland \u2013 has forgotten to switch his device to silent mode. These things happen.<\/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)\">\u201cI\u2019ll turn that off,\u201d Carney says, removing the offending item from the table between us. \u201cOh, actually, it&#8217;s my kid.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u2018Power Ballad\u2019 director on fame, fatherhood, and how streaming has changed filmmaking Film Director John Carney at home&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":453147,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[93,61,60,6992],"class_list":["post-453146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-people-culture-magazine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453146","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=453146"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453146\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/453147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=453146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=453146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=453146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}