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Film Stories with Simon Brew

In conversation with Colm Meaney: Confession, Die Hard 2, Con Air, Alan Parker and more

Film Stories with Simon Brew

Simon Brew

Film History, Tv & Film

4.9813 Ratings

🗓️ 4 February 2022

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

In a special episode of the Film Stories podcast, Simon chats to actor Colm Meaney about his most recent film - Confession - and some of the highlights of his career. They touch on filming Confession, how Die Hard 2 changed Meaney's life, working with the late Alan Parker, the joys of Con Air and a whole lot more.  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hello, this is Simon Brew. I'm the editor of Film Stories magazine and a very warm welcome to a special episode of the Film Stories podcast.

0:09.1

Come with me. And I show you how deep the rabbit hole goes.

0:14.6

In movies, movies that had stories.

0:17.4

The story just sucks a man. This is just the beginning.

0:22.5

We would be honoured if you would join us.

0:29.3

Hello and a very warm welcome to film stories with Simon Brew.

0:32.9

I am Simon Brew.

0:34.1

As always, that's absolutely everything you need to know about me.

0:37.1

At the end of the podcast, I'm here to talk off the stories of film. I tend to talk about development

0:41.5

stories, production stories, marketing stories, behind the scenes stories, all the bits and

0:45.0

bobs really that go to make the films that we know and sometimes love, the films that we know

0:49.1

and sometimes love. Now, what you've happened upon here is one of my occasional special episodes of the podcast

0:55.0

where I bring in a filmmaker or someone to do with the maker film, an actor, director, and talk

1:01.4

about their work, talk about a film that they're up to, but get their stories from their side

1:05.5

of the fence. And I'm absolutely thrilled for this one to be joined by someone who's work I've

1:10.4

been watching for such a long time and enjoying Colmini.

1:13.6

Now he is starring in a new independent action thriller called Confession, which has been released by signature here in the UK,

1:22.6

on demand, video on demand services at the end of January 2022. It's written and directed by David Beaton.

1:29.5

It's effectively a two-hander for the most part alongside Stephen Moyer, Claire Hoa Pashiti's in the

1:35.2

ensemble as well. But ostensibly he's here to talk, I mean, as you're here in the conversation

1:41.9

about that movie, but we also go and cover quite a lot of other bits and bobs as well.

1:47.5

So we're going to talk about a few Alan Parker films that he was involved in, the late director Alan Parker.

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