Featured photo courtesy of Malin Head Community
American actor Aidan Quinn has said he loves working in Donegal after making his second feature film here last year.
The Legends of the Fall star is no stranger to Donegal’s beauty and was singing the praises of Donegal and Mayo at the IFTAs last week.
Despite the unpredictable Irish weather bringing relentless wind and rain to Mayo, he said Culdaff was “gorgeous”.
“But Culdaff, up there in Donegal, gorgeous. I’ve worked there before so I love going back there,” Quinn told The Sun on the red carpet last week. (Read the full interview here)
A Shine of Rainbows, also starring Aidan Quinn, was filmed around Lagg in 2006.
The star was welcomed back to Inishowen last autumn while making Cry From the Sea. The drama, also starring Dominic Cooper, saw main street Culdaff transformed into a film set with horse-drawn carriages, old motors and local businesses being kitted out with vintage wares.
September 2023: Actor Aidan Quinn and Loretta Bonnar. Photo courtesy of Bonnar in Culdaff Arms
Quinn said he hoped the film would be released later in the year.
Cry From the Sea is a historical romance directed by Vic Sarin that centres on a grieving lighthouse keeper on an isolated Irish island in the aftermath of the first World War and the Irish Civil War. When the new priest clashes with him over the improper burial of his late wife on the lighthouse grounds, the conflict leaves the island’s loyalties divided.
Aidan Quinn at the Malin Head Community Centre last September. Photo: Malin Head Community