Irish actor Ciarán Hinds has been in roughly 47 percent of the film and television shows produced in the last decade or so, most notably in key supporting roles from There Will Be Blood to Margot at the Wedding to the forthcoming Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows and as Julius Caesar on HBO's Rome. But only now are American audiences seeing him carry a feature film, and what a doozy: Straight outta Ireland, the tiny drama/ghost story/romantic potboiler The Eclipse mashes genres and scares with literally shocking ease. You'll be hearing more about the film here in Hinds's own words when it opens next month, but for now, let's steal a few minutes from one of the hardest working men in show business to play My Favorite Scene!
"It'd probably be that first shot of Once Upon a Time In the West," Hinds told Movieline. "Jack Elam, is it? And a fly. Waiting, just waiting. It's hot, sticky. A train comes in, a train goes. Then it's Charles Bronson, I think? With the harmonica? Just playing this tune. Yeah. Once Upon a Time In the West. Sergio Leone."
Hinds shook his head. "It's hard, though, because my memory is like I'm there in the present, and then it's gone," he said, continuing with what necessarily requires a SPOILER ALERT. "But the other thing that sticks in my mind is the end of a film. Like The Long Good Friday? It's just Bob Hoskins' face in the back of a car as he works out how exactly he fucked up. How he was so stupid. It just registers all his thoughts. He's in the back of the car and he knows they're taking him away to get rid of him. But it's just these memories of all these signs when I'm like, 'Fuck. How do you do that?'"
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