There is an intriguing story told about Domhnall Gleeson: that he's such a self-critical perfectionist he thinks he's singlehandedly ruined every film he's been in. Oh no, that's a complete exaggeration, he says, between sips of a beer that he shouldn't technically be drinking. (He's due on set in a few days, to star alongside Julie Walters and Jim Broadbent in an adaptation of Colm Tóibín's Brooklyn. "But, you know," he says. "Fuck it.")
No, of course Gleeson doesn't think he's singlehandedly ruined every film he's starred in. Just most of them. "Yeah, I had a nasty surprise recently," he nods. "I watched a couple of films I was in and thought, 'Those are pretty close to what we wanted them to be. I feel actually weirdly OK with it all. I can still see flaws in what I'm doing, but I think I delivered. I think I improved the film with my presence.' And then I watched something else and I thought, 'I fucked everything up.' It was a total crash down. It was like, 'Oh no, I've done it again.'"
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