He said: ‘You know Daniel Day-Lewis has an Irish passport?’ And it just went: ding!” he told Ryan Tubridy. “Daniel Day-Lewis was suggested to me by Pat O’Connor. The story of how Daniel Day-Lewis, a man with deep Irish connections, ended up with the role has been many times revised in the telling. My Left Foot: Christy Brown with his parents in October 1954 "I was in New York and I read My Left Foot again and I thought, I'll have a go at this," he remembered on a documentary some years later. It seems to have begun with the unstoppable impresario Noel Pearson. My first thought was, What is this about? Noel Pearson said: 'We are thinking of doing this film. The first thing I read was this description of a foot. It now looks as if My Left Foot, the story of one stubborn Dubliner with cerebral palsy, helped launch (for good or ill) an unexpected period of national confidence. Day-Lewis, who played Brown so memorably, and Brenda Fricker, moving as his indefatigable mother, both won Academy Awards.Ī few months later, the Republic of Ireland soccer team had that breathtaking run at Italia ’90. Up to that point, Irish films were as rare as Irish aircraft carriers. Thirty years ago, Jim Sheridan's My Left Foot, the stirring story of the writer and painter Christy Brown, had its premiere in Dublin. The distinguished actor, long resident in Ireland, made some contribution to those changes. “Dubliners are hugely generous people,” Daniel Day-Lewis said some years ago.
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