Set in 90s rural Ireland, the coming-of-age film is a sweet portrayal of platonic queer love.
, the world was already locked down. In most circumstances, that would be a bit of a bummer. No premieres, no Q&As, no red carpets. But, given the visceral reaction to Jamie -- Marianne’s brief university boyfriend who turns abusive and spoils a trip to Italy -- the Dublin-born actor might have been quite happy to follow the stay-at-home directives.
“I’ve seen very few people,” the actor says . “I just went for my first socially distant pub drinks and it was really weird. I’m still very much in a kind of self-imposed lockdown.” Nevertheless, he's aware that the reaction to his portrayal of Jamie has been “pretty vitriolic”: “It’s weird because you’re seeing it all online, but it’s kind of amazing too, as an actor, that people are having such a strong reaction to a character -- whether that’s love or, er, hate.
Despite the classic tenets of queer coming of age love stories -- close-minded parents, abusive peers, isolated communities --is a sweet and uplifting film. Without spoilers, there’s no devastating, unhappy ending, and the characters are nuanced and believable. “I think it’s incredibly important that they get a kind of happy ending,” the 23-year-old actor says. “Historically we’ve had a lot of films that tell queer stories in a very tragic or pessimistic way.
The relationship between Eddie and Amber is made all the sweeter by the real life friendship between Fionn and actor Lola Petticrew. Just before lockdown the former moved from London back to Ireland, where the pair became flatmates, essentially quarantining together. “There’s a lot of us and our friendship in those characters,” Fionn says. “We didn’t know each other before but we just instantly clicked and became best friends, really, over the course of filming.
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