Kin star Clare Dunne speaks of 'nerve-racking' experience of writing ...
Kin star Clare Dunne has revealed that has written a romantic comedy, which she also plans to direct next year.
The actor, who grew up in Ballinteer, south Dublin, will turn her focus to the big-screen project after acting in the popular RTÉ Irish gangland drama series.
"It was a story that just came to me instinctively a few years ago. It was during lockdown,” the 36-year-old told The Brendan O'Connor Show on RTÉ Radio 1.
"So yeah, I'm hoping to get that going. We're just in the process of getting the funding and production stuff all set up for next year.
"We're just trying to pull the exact right pair [of actors] together for it. I think I'm going to try and direct, which is a little bit nerve-racking.”
Dunne made her screenwriting debut with the award-winning Herself, a movie about a young woman who escaped an abusive relationship only to have to battle to find a way to rebuild her life and build a family home.
Of this new project, Dunne said she had directed a proof concept and now felt “it's safer for me to direct rather than be in it because it's just trying to be in two places at once”.
The actor will next appear with Hazel Doupe and Peter Coonan in the psychological drama Kathleen Is Here, which opens at cinemas from Friday, October 18.
The movie will mark actor Eva Birtwhistle’s directorial debut.
Dunne is also set to appear in the movie Small Things Like These, starring Cillian Murphy. Focusing on Ireland’s infamous Magdalene Laundries, it comes to cinemas on Friday, November 1.
Dunne first came to attention of Irish audiences as Amanda Kinsella in Kin.
Kinsella appears in the series as the wife of a crime boss’s son, a complex mother-of-two who serves as the 'legal' face of the family.
However, Dunne has been working for a decade, well before she came to our attention and her rom-com will be her second dive into screenwriting and her first into directing.
She had previously acted on stage with respected Irish theatre company, Druid and though her star is clearly on the rise, the actor wants to keep her private life out of the public sphere.
Dunne was on the edge of moving back in with her parents, when she came up with the idea for Herself, a feature directed by Phyllida Lloyd.
