Jim Sheridan
Jim Sheridan
Jim Sheridanis an Irish film director. A six-time Academy Award nominee, Sheridan is perhaps best known for his films My Left Foot, In the Name of the Father, The Field and In America...
gangsters grew knew lost
I just knew his world. It was like the world I grew up in in Dublin. I knew gangsters and drugs and I was even in a band. It was like he was a long lost brother.
cause felt ghetto grew inside knew
I kind of grew up in a neighborhood like that, so I felt I knew 50, ... to go inside the ghetto and see what's the cause of the rage.
hundred known
It was like I'd known him for a hundred years.
coming feeling jesus met minute prove somebody wounds wrote
I had that feeling the minute I met him that I could do a movie about somebody coming back from the dead, ... One of the times when I was getting a little hyperbolic and melodramatic, I wrote down, 'A black-gangster Jesus with the wounds to prove it.'
himself secrets
He's funny, he doesn't take himself too seriously. I think that's one of the secrets of his success, that it's a contradictory image.
liked music rap
I've liked rap music for 10, 15 years,
everybody lost nobody saying stop
I was going to everybody and saying, 'You've got to stop this,' and nobody was saying no, so I just lost my head.
affinity black blacks body came cross culture cultures dancing developed emerged hands hard irish tap watched ways
I think there's an affinity with the Irish and black culture in many ways. I think tap emerged from Irish dancing when we came over with our hard shoes. Blacks watched it and developed it with hands and body and made it a different thing. There are many ways in how the cultures cross each other.
funny image rap totally
He was very good. Very charismatic, funny, relaxed. I think he could do another movie. And he was able to show vulnerability, totally different from the image in the rap world.
kids
The kids were going insane, 50. I thought someone was going to get injured.
acting people three
At the end of the movie people will wonder: Is this the real 50 Cent? Has he changed? Is he acting a part? All three are true,
line reality walking
We were always walking the line between reality and fiction.