Antonia Bird

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Hello and welcome to Talk 90s to Me, where we start the 90s as a young acting talent working in new plays and indie films, get noticed in Antonia Bird's Safe and Jez Butterworth's Mojo, land the iconic role as the wild and sexy Stuart Jones in the seminal series Queer as Folk and launch a frankly excellent career.

that takes us through The Wire, Love Hate, Game of Thrones, Peaky Blinders, Kin, as well as some great film and theatre roles, a music video for Fontaine's DC, and Ace's new TV project, Tall Tales and Murder.

I'm Miranda Sawyer, and this week on Talk 90s, I am delighted to be talking to the fantastic actor Aidan Gillen.

He's got a real, like, I write studio movies kind of filmography there.

Directed by Antonia Bird, but she was hired on after director Milcho Manchevsky was fired a week into filming.

Yeah.

He was fired for asking for more money and clashing with the executive producer, Laura Ziskin, who oversaw the film.

... brought this film to life?

So the director on this was a woman named Antonia Bird.

She doesn't have a huge resume.

Prior to this film, she did a film called Safe in '93.

Uh-

[laughs]

[laughs] Robert Carlyle then recommended Antonia Bird, who came in as the third director attached to the movie and ultimately is the one who finished it.

Uh, and even Bird said the production was a mess.

And apparently Bob and I were really quite high.

So, and also Antonia Bird, that wonderful television director.

had championed us and said, you know, I really do think you should be in it more because you're the first port of call when somebody is injured and, you know, you bring them in.

So they started writing us up a bit.

I mean, I don't know if...

I haven't listened to the, the full version, but I don't know if you kept our preamble about, uh, Ravenous and Antonia Bird in the interview, but, like, we had a full bonding sesh over one of my all-time favorite movies that was panned on this show.

[laughs]

Uh, Ravenous, and from that moment on I knew he was good people, and we had a great time.