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Killarney woman Jessie Buckley at the 83rd Golden Globes on Sunday in Beverly Hills. Picture: AP Photo\/Chris Pizzello<\/p>\nA Cork-based friend and neighbour of Golden Globe-winning actor Jessie Buckley, has said the Kerry woman\u2019s performance in the screen adaptation of Hamnet was nothing short of \u201castounding\u201d.<\/p>\n
Killarney actor Buckley was recognised for her leading role in the film about the life of Shakespeare, at the awards ceremony in Hollywood on Sunday night.<\/p>\n
Speaking to The Echo, Bandon woman Fiona Crowley of the Kerry-based Fiona Crowley Stage School, a friend and neighbour of the actor, said she is \u201cso proud\u201d of the star\u2019s success.<\/p>\n
\u201cJessie came and worked with us in the stage school after she finished her Leaving Certificate exams,\u201d said Ms Crowley.<\/p>\n
\u201cShe worked with us for a little while, and then joined the Musical Society in Killarney \u2014 which I\u2019m a member of \u2014 so I used to bring her home from rehearsals, and we got quite close.<\/p>\n
She said it was \u201cfantastic\u201d to see the actor accepting her Golden Globe for Hamnet on Sunday night.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe bottom line is that she is the person who needs to take the bow, she did this. It\u2019s just fabulous, I\u2019m so happy for her,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ve watched her in everything. I actually flew to London to watch her first West End performance, so I\u2019ve followed her career.<\/p>\n
\u201cShe\u2019s getting a lot of accolades and glory now, [and] her performance in Hamnet was astounding.<\/p>\n
\u201cShe was raw and gave it everything \u2014 she gives everything her all.\u201d<\/p>\n
Ms Crowley said she believes Jessie\u2019s success is down to her \u201cgrace and dignity\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cShe\u2019s the hottest ticket at the moment, but I do think it\u2019s important that, at the Golden Globes, one of the most glitz and glam events in Los Angeles, she thanked the man who made soup in a pot behind his truck \u2014 and that\u2019s genuine \u2014 that\u2019s the Jessie that I knew back in 2008.<\/p>\n
\n \u201cYou can be the biggest superstar in the world, but if you haven\u2019t got humility and grace, what do you have?\u201d\n <\/p>\n
And she added everyone in the stage school is so proud of her. \u201cIt\u2019s such a fabulous story.\u201d<\/p>\n
Hamnet, which is based on Maggie O\u2019Farrell\u2019s 2020 novel of the same name, follows the family life of William Shakespeare and his wife Agnes Hathaway as they cope with the death of their 11-year-old son, Hamnet.<\/p>\n
Starring alongside Kildare native, Paul Mescal, who plays William Shakespeare, Ms Buckley, who plays Agnes Hathaway, was honoured in the Best Performance by a Female Actor in a Motion Picture \u2014 Drama category.<\/p>\n
While accepting her award, Ms Buckley paid tribute to Hamnet director, Chlo\u00e9 Zhao, her co-star Mr Mescal, as well as all the cast and crew of the film, with a particular nod to Polish crew member, Tomasz Sternicki, the film\u2019s key grip who, she said, made soup for the crew in his truck.<\/p>\n
Killarney woman Jessie Buckley at the 83rd Golden Globes on Sunday in Beverly Hills. Picture: AP Photo\/Chris Pizzello<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was such an extraordinary set to be part of,\u201d said Ms Buckley.<\/p>\n
\n \u201cWe were telling the story of probably the most famous Brit that ever lived, and we had a Chinese director, a lot of Irish, [and] a mostly Polish crew.\n <\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019d really like to thank our grip, Tomasz because, during shooting, he started to disappear a little bit, and I found him one day at the back of his truck chopping up potatoes, onions, and meat. He was making soup \u2014 he brought over his ginormous cast iron pot from Poland, and this soup started turning up on set \u2014 it was delicious, so thanks, Tomasz, for bringing your pot to set.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is a real, real honour,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n
\u201cI love what I do, and I love being part of this industry.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Cork-based friend and neighbour of Golden Globe-winning actor Jessie Buckley, has said the Kerry woman\u2019s performance in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":283701,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[75],"tags":[781,18,117,19,17],"class_list":{"0":"post-283700","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-cork-news","9":"tag-eire","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-ie","12":"tag-ireland"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115892984473288550","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283700","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=283700"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283700\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/283701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=283700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=283700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=283700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}