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 In addition to finding the perfect actors to play Ray and Ken, McDonagh needed someone to play their ruthless boss Harry. He wanted someone unexpected in the role and he found that in Fiennes. “I wanted someone in that part who we hadn’t seen before,” he says. “There are a few actors who have done those heavy, kind of working class English gangster roles before but I just wanted someone who was first and foremost a great actor who could then bring it to stranger, weirder places. But then, there’s also a great intensity to most of Ralph’s roles. He has played like one or two psychopaths before too so he knew he would be able to go down that route. The most important thing is to play the truth of the character rather than playing the comedy on top of it. He’s never really done a comedy before and I think he’s hilarious in this. He makes me laugh every time I watch.” On camera, Bruges seems pristine and preserved, but did McDonagh find a seedy underbelly in his explorations of this quaint city? “Nope, I looked!” he says. “There’s nothing down there.” But immediately after he says this, he remembers something and he quickly changes his mind. “Actually, you know, yeah,” he says. “One night Ralph had just arrived in and we went to dinner, just me and Colin and Brendan and him. [We’re] walking back across the square and there’s a major knife fight—I had never seen it before anywhere, New York or London. Guys literally trying to stab each other and then running away.” Apart from this one almost-dangerous encounter though, filming In Bruges was a pretty painless endeavor. It was McDonagh’s feature directorial debut and the experience was not at all what he expected. “Going into it I thought if I get out of it with a film I liked even if it wrenched my heart out and was a pain that would be ok,” he says. “But I liked the film a lot and it was actually a joy to work on. I never thought it would be fun. I thought it would be hard and there’d be a hundred people asking me questions and me not knowing any of the answers. But when you get together with a group of people who just want to do their jobs really well and when they all like the script, there’s something kind of joyous about that. You realize that you don’t have ... |
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