Ciarán Hinds gets his Irish up in 'Cat on a Hot Tin Roof'

Well, it's even bastardized by the Irish because I have a minorly pretentious accent. It's called a "fadda," which means "long" in Irish. So theoretically you should pronounce my name Kee-RAHN.

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KEE-rin. I'm from the north of Ireland, where they speak flatter, wider.

Vaguely. From the film. But of course they didn't touch on the homosexuality at all. At all. Yet, here's Tennessee Williams addressing it, saying look, if it's human, it's real.

When Rob Ashford asked me, I said, are you sure? But others see bits of you that you may not be aware of yourself. I have the great joy of... grabbing hold of Scarlett at the very end, and...

Yeah. She's extraordinary, picking up ideas quickly, then having the chops to drive them through.

We go to war every night. It feels alive! You throw open those doors, walk onstage and you've got this burst, for just under an hour. Then you walk off and go phew.

I have no idea, Joe. They asked me to do Richard III because the lead actor -- his disc went.

Eight days.

Yeah... I was younger then. I couldn't have done it without that brilliant company. I remember getting through the first night, numb, and someone says, "The show tomorrow is at 8..." And you think, "You're joking -- I have to do that again?" I had a panic attack the second night.

I think I was. I was 19. If I stayed, I might've gotten involved. You'd see all these soldiers on street corners, all squaddied up...

British GIs are called squaddies, like in a squad? All you'd see is this violent image in the streets. Of course, you get older, wiser. I came back in my late 20s, and saw the uniforms -- and what's in the uniforms -- scared 17-year-old boys.

We met to a theater course in Holland. We were teenagers and had never been off the island of Ireland. We got on right away. Maybe because we had a load of sisters each and no brothers. We've been close ever since.

Yeah... the loss of 'Tasha. Terrible. She was a beautiful person. Generous spirit. Things happen in the world you can't fathom. But this was just a small skiing accident. Everyone who knew them were broken to pieces.

Yeah. Not just Iceland. Northeast Iceland -- in November. It was just blizzards. Of course, it's an extraordinary place. And watching the technicians work in those conditions... laying down tracks for cameras... amazing. 'I never thought I'd be in the Winter Olympics, but'... it seemed like that.