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<\/p>\nDominic Cooper has said that filming in Donegal was both \u201chealing and beautiful\u201d for the Hollywood star.<\/p>\n
Cooper made the comments on the Late Late Show last night, whilst speaking with host Patrick Kielty.<\/p>\n
He appeared with co-star Sarah Bolger as his latest movie \u2013 The Lightkeeper \u2013 releases in cinemas this weekend.<\/p>\n
The movie was filmed largely in Donegal, a place that Cooper says he completely fell in love with \u2013 especially as shooting for\u00a0The Lightkeeper came just after the passing of his mother.<\/p>\n
\u201cI fell completely in love with it, actually. It was a very healing, beautiful place to be and the people there were wonderful as well,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe lived in this community, in fact I had just lost my mother very, very close to filming. Her maiden name was Herron, and the family that I met there were all the Herrons.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWe just used to sit together and sing, and play instruments, and talk, it was sort of almost the perfect remedy or cure, it was just exactly what was needed.\u201d<\/p>\n
Dominic says that Ireland, and Donegal in particular, is unlike anywhere he has ever been.<\/p>\n
\u201c(There\u2019s) this expanse of land, it\u2019s beautiful, the ocean\u2026 and I\u2019ve always felt this in Ireland the soil, it\u2019s just so rich, something\u2019s going on, it\u2019s fizzing with something.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s so much energy, it\u2019s unlike anywhere I\u2019ve ever been, you feel something\u2019s inhabiting you sometimes. It feels like people who have gone, are there, because it\u2019s very spiritual.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThat particular part of Ireland I had never been to, and it was just healing and beautiful.\u201d<\/p>\n
First developed under the title Cry From the Sea, The Lightkeeper is set in Ireland in 1924 and follows Dominic Cooper\u2019s character, Seamus \u00d3g McGrinna.<\/p>\n
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A lighthouse keeper whose elaborate rituals keep him at a distance from the outside world as he awaits the fabled Each Uisce (Water-Horse) to take him.<\/p>\n
His carefully constructed prison is blown open by three people who change the course of his life: an American war widow whose quest for closure ignites something in him; a housekeeper who fiercely protects him; and the hard-line priest who starts a battle of wills.<\/p>\n
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