The film Joyride (that was filmed around County Kerry and County Clare [for at least one scene] a couple of years ago) that stars Olivia Colman, Charlie Reid (and Tommy Tiernan and other prominent Irish actors in side roles) is now out on Netflix in UK/Ireland, and i keep pausing to spot all the locations I recognise 😂😍
Like, it blows my mind that they filmed scenes for the film in the area where you queue for the ferry and on the ferry itself between County Kerry and County Clare that I commute on every few weeks 😍
Like, they even have the main characters missing the ferry and having to wait for the next one to come around (which has happened to me before 😂), plus the safety announcement over the loudspeakers that I hear during every trip - I could literally recite it word-for-word 😂
I've sat on those seats on the upstairs viewing platforms before 😂
Also, this scene has Tommy Tiernan's character playing the Home and Away theme tune on the tin whistle as part of an impromptu singalong with Olivia Colman and Charlie Reid's characters 😂👏😍
Bonus round: Kerry Airport! Where I'll be flying from when I go on my holidays in the beginning of September 😊
It's mad to see the local further education college credited on a big film like this 💖
I must say, Clare, I find your attitude shocking. Sister Michael has asked us to do something in her hour of need, and if that means that we must spend a night in Donegal, in a house, in an adult-free house, for the entire night, then that is a cross that we’ll just have to bear.
Cast: Honor Kneafsey, Eva Whittaker, Sean Bean, Simon McBurney, Tommy Tiernan, Jon Kenny, John Morton, Maria Doyle Kennedy, Oliver McGrath, Niamh Moyles, Nora Twomey, Paul Young, Lana Ropion
Release year: 2020
Genres: adventure, family, fantasy
Blurb: In a time of superstition and magic, when wolves are seen as demonic and nature an evil to be tamed, a young apprentice hunter comes to Ireland with her father to wipe out the last pack...but when she saves a wild native girl, their friendship leads her to discover the world of the Wolfwalkers and transforms her into the very thing her father is tasked to destroy.