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MY FAVOURITE MOVIES | Niamh Algar on Thelma, Louise and that scene from My Girl

Hot Corn’s column in which musicians, actors, artists, directors tell us about their favourite movies

Niamh Algar

It’s been quite a couple of years for Irish actress Niamh Algar. Having impressed greatly in Shane Meadows’ mini-series The Virtues, and more recently in the compelling and gritty drama Calm With Horses, alongside Cosmo Jarvis. When we had the pleasure of meeting Niamh Algar in London (back when people were allowed to meet other people), we also couldn’t help but ensure she was the latest talent to take part in our popular My Favourite Movies feature series.

WHAT’S THE FIRST MOVIE YOU EVER FELL IN LOVE WITH?
Thelma and Louise. It was just these two women. It was the first time I’d ever seen a road movie, and Ridley Scott takes female characters and brings them to the forefront and they’re not defined by the men in the script, and that was a very powerful film for me as a young girl watching it.

Thelma and Louise
Thelma and Louise

WHAT’S THE ONE MOVIE YOU NEVER GET TIRED OF WATCHING?
Monster. Charlize Theron is incredible. Every time I watch it I see something new that she’s done. You see something different in the take. That or Girl, Interrupted because that’s an ensemble piece and each actor just owns the characters that they play. These are films that as a young girl I watched and I was so influenced, performance-wise.

Monster
Charlize Theron is unrecognisable in Monster

WHAT’S YOUR FAVOURITE MOVIE SOUNDTRACK?
Drive. That last song, the ‘a real hero’ one. Beautiful.

WHAT’S YOUR GUILTY PLEASURE?
The Other Guys. I love comedy. I love watching the old classics of Whose Line is it Anyway? It’s not a guilty pleasure, though.

The Other Guys
Man, this is film is so funny

WHAT’S THE ONE SCENE FROM ANY MOVIE THAT ALWAYS MAKES YOU CRY?
My Girl, when she comes down during the funeral and says ‘he can’t see without his glasses, he needs his glasses’. Every time. Every time.

My Girl
Man, this film is so sad

WHAT’S YOUR FAVOURITE IRISH MOVIE?
My Left Foot. It’s incredible, it is incredible.

My Left Foot
Daniel Day-Lewis in My Left Foot

EXCLUSIVE | “ACTORS ARE LIKE CRAP PSYCHOLOGISTS” – NIAMH ALGAR ON HER COMPLEX CHARACTER IN CALM WITH HORSES

Watch the official trailer here for Calm With Horses:

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