The star of Peter Mullan's new film Neds talks about leaving school, his first film role and how he's not the hardnut he plays on screen
There's been a lot of advance festival circuit heat around Peter Mullan's third film as writer-director, entitled Neds. And a good deal of the temperature has been generated by the performance of 17-year-old unknown Conor McCarron. The young Glaswegian may be new to the unpredictable thermal dynamics of fame, but he knows a thing or two about retaining heat.
"Right now I'm actually in college studying thermal insulation," he says with a winning indifference to pretension. "That's something to fall back on if the acting doesn't work out."
McCarron plays John McGill, a bright working-class schoolboy in 1970s Glasgow who loses interest in learning, grows estranged from his dysfunctional family and becomes embroiled in gang violence.
Neds, a term which the film...
There's been a lot of advance festival circuit heat around Peter Mullan's third film as writer-director, entitled Neds. And a good deal of the temperature has been generated by the performance of 17-year-old unknown Conor McCarron. The young Glaswegian may be new to the unpredictable thermal dynamics of fame, but he knows a thing or two about retaining heat.
"Right now I'm actually in college studying thermal insulation," he says with a winning indifference to pretension. "That's something to fall back on if the acting doesn't work out."
McCarron plays John McGill, a bright working-class schoolboy in 1970s Glasgow who loses interest in learning, grows estranged from his dysfunctional family and becomes embroiled in gang violence.
Neds, a term which the film...
- 12/26/2010
- by Andrew Anthony
- The Guardian - Film News
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