to be found, you run towards. hmm. your father was working in england and eventually, you moved as a family in what, 1970, wasn t it? correct, yeah. and there is, listening to you now, there s no trace of a belfast accent there at all. yeah! did you consciously, did you make an effort to lose the accent? it took about two or three years, i suppose, for it to go but what i absolutely wanted to do was to sort of fit in, ijust wanted to disappear. i, like the rest of the family, i think, felt very uprooted, that sense of certainty about who i was was removed, and i just didn t want to, i didn t want to stick out. i kept my head down and became, i say, a much more introverted individual. i ve often thought that when i started working in the theatre and was involved in the formation of acting troupes and companies, that the sort of larger family, creative family that that involved was part of a kind of hearkening
any entertainment to be found, you run towards. hmm. your father was working in england and eventually, you moved as a family in what, 1970, wasn t it? correct, yeah. and there is, listening to you now, there s no trace of a belfast accent there at all. yeah! did you consciously, did you make an effort to lose the accent? it took about two or three years, i suppose, for it to go but what i absolutely wanted to do was to sort of fit in, ijust wanted to disappear. i, like the rest of the family, i think, felt very uprooted, that sense of certainty about who i was was removed, and i just didn t want to, i didn t want to stick out. i kept my head down and became, i say, a much more introverted individual. i ve often thought that when i started working in the theatre and was involved in the formation of acting troupes and companies, that the sort of larger family, creative family that that involved was part of a kind of hearkening back to having a place in a larger group that i found more c
yeah! did you consciously, did you make an effort to lose the accent? it took about two or three years, i suppose, for it to go but what i absolutely wanted to do was to sort of fit in, ijust wanted to disappear. i, like the rest of the family, i think, felt very uprooted, that sense of certainty about who i was was removed, and i just didn t want to, i didn t want to stick out. i kept my head down and became, i say, a much more introverted individual. i ve often thought that when i started working in the theatre and was involved in the formation of acting troupes and companies, that the sort of larger family, creative family that that involved was part of a kind of hearkening back to having a place in a larger group that i found more comfortable, where somehow burdens were shared, and so, for me, yes, it s taken a long time to sort of return. in a way, the writing of belfast, creatively, is a return to the sort