John Davey

So I'm gonna speak to some of the member groups throughout the day, and I hope that you'll join me in listening to the community voices across Ireland.

So I'm with John Davey, and he's been brilliant at showing our PPN group around Leinster House today.

And can you tell me a bit about your job? I know you work with Senator Cosgrove.

Yes, I work for Senator Nessa Cosgrove, um, as her a- administrative assistant it is, but it's more like a parliamentary assistant.

It's just such a powerful movie.

I also think John Davey, who we didn't talk about, shot about 40 of Wiseman's movies, almost all of them after Model onward.

Does unbelievable work in this movie.

The way he shoots faces, the way he shoots environments is unbelievable.

I'm sure it's happened to you and anybody listening to this as well.

But like having a film that is provocative and evocative in a way in terms of just like dealing with these obviously gigantic themes of death and life, you know, American society and all that is, I mean, again, like that's all you can kind of ask for.

You mentioned John Davey earlier, and I'm glad you did because I had forgotten to write that down.

But what effect do you feel like he had when they kind of linked up? And I guess what effect he has on this, on Belfast in particular?

So I brought him up, um, to do the middles attack and defense.

And then, um, I brought John Davey, who was in our performance staff, who's been around the game for a while.

Um, he's a analyst and sort of does a bit of work in the performance space.

I brought him over to, to help me with the edges and, um, that's all we did.

Mm.

Um, and they had a player called Mark Hendrick, not Mark Hendricks, but Mark Hendrick, who was from Corrimal, which is on the New South Wales coast down near Lee Territory, near Wollongong, who was the New South Wales keeper before moving over.

Um, they won in 1976.

They had Gary Kosier come over, who liked to give the ball a belt.

"... uh, the captain of their international team," and so he will, and we'll make a documentary about it.

If it's good enough for Morocco, it's good enough for Algeria.

Well, Albert Camus was the goalkeeper for the Algerian football team, um, one of...

The Nobel Prize for Literature winner.

Then you had a cinematographer.

Like William Brain or John Davey, who worked with him for decades.

Exactly.

And finally, an assistant whose main job was to constantly load the 16-millimeter film magazines.

But in color?

In color, those uncorrected fluorescent lights turn a person's skin a sickly Shrek green, while the daylight might turn them lobster red.

Which means the cinematographer for that film, John Davey, had to be an absolute wizard.

He couldn't just walk up to a subject and hold a light meter in front of their face to check the exposure.