![]() ![]() Pearson and Sheridan lined up a strong production team headed by Jack Conroy as cinematographer, J. Eileen Crow, Emma MacLiam as Benny and Cyril Cusack as Lord Castlewelland. Other members of the cast included Ruth McCabe as Mary, Fiona Shaw as Dr. Hugh O’Conor played Christy as a boy, with Ray McAnally and Brenda Fricker as his parents. The central role was played by Daniel Day-Lewis who spent months in preparation and remained in character throughout the entire production, impressing cast and crew by his absorption in the part.ĭaniel was so committed to the role that he acted out the opening scene, as we see it in the film, on the first take. ![]() The film was a co-production of a number of companies including Granada Films, Miramax Films, Ferndale Films and Radio Telefis Eireann. Pearson had enough confidence in him and put him in charge of the £1.7 million film. He had never directed a film before, but pleaded with Pearson. While working on the script based on Christy’s book, My Left Foot, Sheridan became desperate to direct it. Pearson set about commissioning a script and assigned a leading Dublin theatre director, Jim Sheridan and Shane Connaughton the task. ![]() He realised it would be a tough unenviable project but persevered. Arthur Flynn remembers the classic film based on the life of Christy BrownĪ project that obsessed theatre producer Noel Pearson for many years was to bring the life of the disabled Dublin writer, Christy Brown, who could write and paint with his left foot, to the screen. ![]()
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