Irish director says Garret FitzGerald said he was expecting payment from Warner Bros for endorsing Michael Collins biopic – which son refutes
Liam Neeson, centre, flanked by Alan Rickman and Aidan Quinn, as the doomed, charismatic guerrilla chief Michael Collins, a portrayal some disagreed with.Liam Neeson, centre, flanked by Alan Rickman and Aidan Quinn, as the doomed, charismatic guerrilla chief Michael Collins, a portrayal some disagreed with.
However, nearly 30 years on, Jordan has raised unexpected questions about a defence of his film by Ireland’s former taoiseach,. According to Jordan, the Irish statesman said he expected payment from Warner Bros, the film’s producers, for an article in which he lauded the biopic. In a forthcoming memoir, Jordan recounts encountering the former prime minister and thanking him for the article. “That reminds me, I must send in an invoice, I still haven’t been paid,” FitzGerald said, according to Jordan.The claim puts a question mark over why FitzGerald, who died aged 85 in 2011, wrote the article. During his time in power, and after, he had a reputation for integrity. “His strength lay in his puritanical propriety,” said the Guardian’s obituary..
FitzGerald was a full-time carer for his wife in 1996 and 1997 and seldom left the family’s Dublin home, his son said. “My father discussed everything with me. I was very involved in his finances and there was no such payment.”
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