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James Nesbitt

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2008-12-21
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  1. “I don't think you learn charm. I mean, I think it's a very hard thing to learn. My mother was extremely charm and funny. You know, I am in so many ways. So much of me is what my father gave me. But so much of what lies within, I think, is what my mother just, well, I just happened to inherit from her.”

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  2. “Your way through these things. I think there's good things having three sisters. I mean, you know, people say you must have been spoiled rotten, and I've always thought the spoilers of euphemism for being loved, actually. I mean, I think they adored me in many ways. But I think the legacy of that as you go into later life can be quite difficult. I think you're probably in a sense trying to recreate that in a way, you know, because you'll ever love you as much as your three older sisters and your mum did. And I think that can be quite a burden in a way. had a fur lash”

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  3. “She was fantastic. Well, I was the only boy, you know, three older. Three big sisters. Three big sisters Which explains a lot, I think. Not all of it good. But mum worked in the housing executive. She was fabulous swimming, you know. I mean, I was very, very close to her. We would have arguments. But she was incredibly loving and very funny, I think, a lot of my sense of humour would come from my mother. She's a part of my life.”

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  4. “idyllic childhood where was it? I was brought up, it was in County An area called the Braid, and my father was primary school headmaster of a very small school. I think there was only 30 or 30, between 30 and 40 in it at any time. So there was two classrooms, you know, and he was a marvellous teacher, my father. I mean, it was idyllic when I looked back at it, and I don't think that through rose tinted glasses. It's something I remember”

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  5. “What it did from a very early age is funny, you know, when Peggy, the eldest, learned to talk at a very early age. And I was away working one day and my wife phoned me. She says, I don't believe what's happened. And I said, what? She said, oh, we're in the kitchen. And Peggy was about just over two. She said, we were drawing and Peggy said, Mummy, draw heaven and Syna said, well, what's heaven? And Peggy said, it's where the sea ripples over the shingle and sand, which is a line from the song and it floors you, you know. So I think my mother would be proud of it.”

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  6. “Well, this is an old Irish ballad called the Green Glens of Antrim. It was my mother's favourite song. My mother is from the Glens of Antrim up in Carnloch. And it was something she sang to me as a child, and when I then became a parent myself, it was something I signed to my two girls. You know, they've grown up in England and I wanted them to be imbued with a sense of their dad's Irishness and their own Irishness and where they come from. And the green glens of Antrim reminds me not only very fondly and always will of my mother, but I have a connection to my mother through my children through it.”

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  7. “I certainly was because I grew up fairly distanced from the troubles. You know, I had a fairly idyllic upbringing, or some of my parents kept telling me. But I wasn't really connected to the history of where I came from. I mean, I was culturally and delighted to be so. Along with my father, played in March bands. And I was very happy in that respect, but I certainly never really looked at where I came from, why what had happened to it had happened, and how in a way my job could somehow reflect the history. At the time there were those that would have questioned why I did it. And I can understand that. You know, as I say, I'm from a Protestant background. There certainly have been terrible things that have been visited upon Protestants over the years. And I think those stories are still to be told, and I hope will be told. But not only taught me a bit about where I came from, it reminded me why I love it, and it also reminded me very much why I love acting and why I think for the first time I was able to see that maybe it had worth.”

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  8. “It was, you know, and I think it was a defining moment for me in many ways I had achieved, I suppose, three an enormous amount of luck, a fair amount of success with things at cold feet, and I'd been working consistently. But I'd never really tackled anything about where I came from, especially something so important, something that was such a watershed in the recent history of where I come from. And Paul approached me. He had for a long time been fascinated by Bloody Sunday about how he felt it was something the Irish couldn't forget and the English didn't want to remember. And I think rather cleverly he put at the centre of it, Ivan Cooper, who was himself a Protestant like myself, but there he was leading an anti-nationalist protest.”

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