Tuning in…
Tuning in…
Castaway
1 appearance
Versatile actor and singer; won Golden Globe and BAFTA for ‘Hamlet’, earned second Oscar nomination for playing Shakespeare’s wife.
On the island
Eight records
Súra SúraFavourite
this just brings me right back to my childhood and the simplicity and the beauty and the like.
I love this piece of music so much because it really reminds me of coming home for Christmas and us being together as a family.
I remember singing this song, and all these faces like looking up and it was, you know, just a moment of humanity
I need this song and this island to like howl at the moon and say thank you.
I would watch Judy Dench sing Send in the Clowns on repeat for hours and hours
it's my favorite piece of music, it's my favorite moment of music ever.
I asked Chloe to play this track and I stood in that attic where we slept and I just sobbed and sobbed and sobbed.
In conversation
Presenter asks
3:11Why did you choose to stay in a remote shepherd's hut instead of the hotel during the filming of Hamlet, and what did it do for you creatively to be in nature?
I grew up in nature, you know. I grew up in Killarney in County Kerry and we're surrounded by mountains and lakes and I understand what nature can give you. … I find hotel rooms very lonely. … I found this shepherd's hut in the middle of nowhere and I just said to production, I'm sorry I really have to go to this shepherd's hut.
Presenter asks
8:52What kind of person is your mother, Marina? How would you describe her?
My mom is a pretty extraordinary woman. … there's a confidence about her, even though she has this very delicate kind of available self. And she's recently changed her life and gone back to university and retrained as a music psychotherapist … I am so proud of her. I think she's extraordinary.
Presenter asks
13:12Tell me about your father, Tim. He's a poet – what type of poetry does he write?
I don't even know what kind of type it is. I think it's just from the epicentre of his soul. … He'd be the kind of man who'd like we'd go surfing … if there was a strong current, he'd be like, Well, swim harder. … his poetry, it's his biggest expression, and any time we see each other … After we have parted, he'll often send a poem which contains everything that was unsaid or what lives between us.
The keepsakes
The book
collection of every single poem my dad has written
Tim Buckley
because I haven't read them all. And there's so much of him that I want to know. And I want to sit in this island and laugh at all the things that he caught that I didn't and have it in this beautiful bound book that has got all of his amazing words together and I just want him to be with me.
The luxury
bath from Norfolk with smelly salts
I'll sit in the bath in front of the sea and I'll look out as it starts to go tonight and I'll think. What a great life.
Presenter asks
17:58When you were eleven you went to board at a convent school in Tipperary. What do you remember about that, especially leaving such a loving home?
Firstly, it was an incredible music school … But there is also something that about being there that I think if I hadn't gone, I probably wouldn't have had the confidence and independence to move to London when I was seventeen. … I have very happy memories of the nuns … there was a period of time where I really wasn't very well and I got very depressed and just got very lost in myself. … I had an eating disorder and it took time and it took a lot of help and also it was depression.
Presenter asks
30:43You came second on I'd Do Anything and were offered the understudy role, but you turned it down. Why did you have the gumption to do that?
I just kind of felt in my bones, no, I don't think this is for me. … I walked from Hammersmith to Fitzrovia and like knocked on the door and said, Is is Camberny? … I was like, thank you so much, but I won't be taking the part of Nancy Understudy. I've got other things I think I should probably be do.
Presenter asks
36:10During your time at Rada, you were suspended for a brief period. What was your misdemeanour and how did you get caught?
My misdemeanor was um singing … I nearly left because I couldn't do the shows without getting a panic attack … John Boschitza … gave me this book … called F It. And he was like, if this gets to you, they've won, and you have basically got to metabolize this and move on.
“That's when I thought I I want to do that, like I want to have that conversation with people.”
“I was volcanic as a child and as a teenager. I had so much feeling in me. I didn't know what to do with it.”
“I don't want to sacrifice that. This is bigger than that. And it won.”
“I need this song and this island to like howl at the moon and say thank you.”
“I wanted to be a mother for a long time.”
“What a great life.”