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Caitríona Balfe has been waiting her entire career to be offered a project in Ireland. After #Belfast, the actress is still waiting.

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Balfe grew up about 90 minutes from Belfast. She remembers going back and forth between Ireland and Northern Ireland throughout her childhood.

"I thought about my mom a lot while filming this. Just how tough it must have been for them.”
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While Kenneth Branagh wrote “Belfast” based loosely on his own upbringing, the director wanted his cast to draw on their own memories.

Here's how he got the cast to bond on one of the first days on set: latimes.com/entertainment-…
“Caitríona has the rare combination of passion, intelligence, humor and generosity that makes up what you might call soul,” Branagh says of Caitríona Balfe. latimes.com/entertainment-…
“I found it very easy to pretend we had a real marriage and a real bond and that we were really parenting these two boys together."

More of what Jamie Dornan had to say about working with Balfe: latimes.com/entertainment-… Image
After working with Branagh on “Belfast,” Balfe knows one thing for certain: She can’t settle when it comes to her future roles.

Where she says she wants to take her career next ⬇️ latimes.com/entertainment-…

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