Daly special: modern fairy tale
With his full beard and long red hair, “Kisses” writer-director Lance Daly could pass for an overgrown leprechaun.
But with “Kisses,” his award-winning Dublin-set movie about a pair of runaway kids, the 30-something filmmaker has emerged as an unlikely summertime Cinderella, one who’s graduated to directing Orlando Bloom in Hollywood.
“Orlando liked ‘Kisses’ and asked me to direct ‘The Good Doctor,’ ” Daly said in an interview at Manhattan’s Oscilloscope Laboratories, the company distributing “Kisses.”
Winner of the 2009 Miami International Film Festival’s audience award and best director at last year’s Irish Film and Television Awards, “Kisses” tells of two disadvantaged kids: Dylan who runs away to Dublin to escape his drunken, abusive father, and Kylie, the girl next door who joins him.
There, they encounter the wonders of a city and its very real dangers.
“The idea came,” Daly began, “from thinking about when you put kids in that kind of environment growing up, at what point do they no longer have a chance to be something other than a mirror of that environment?
“I wanted to do a story about two kids who still have a chance to be something else and find a way out of that inevitable fate.”
Any movie starring children is difficult to make; finding them even more so.
“I had a very specific idea about the two, so it’s hard when you go out and meet flesh-and-blood actors. We saw thousands of kids in Dublin; we went to all the schools.”
Shane Curry, who plays Dylan, and Kelly O’Neill, who is Kylie, were under 12 when filming began. They are both Dubliners.
“We wanted that to be real, not playing an accent,” Daly said, even if it meant subtitling a few lines for American audiences.
“The Good Doctor,” which Daly just finished, “is a Hitchcock-style suspense thriller about a young doctor who gets caught up in all matter of medical misadventure on his way to the top. It seemed like a nice move from ‘Kisses.’ ”
How did Hollywood compare to Dublin?
“Yeah, it’s more money, but actually in L.A. there’s a machine there to eat that money. It didn’t feel different; it all balances out.”
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