'King Frankie' tells the story of taxi driver Frankie who confronts a traumatic event from his past on the day of his father's funeral. The film, starring Peter Coonan and directed by Dermot Malone, explores themes of greed, grief, redemption, and hope.
Peter Coonan has told how his new movie King Frankie was “a kind of passion project” — and opened up about what he “immediately connected with” about the project.
The movie is the debut feature from writer and director Dermot Malone, with the cast also including Conor MacNeill, Ruairi O'Connor, Lynn Rafferty, Olivia Caffrey, Ally Ni Chiarain, and Owen Roe. It also marks the acting debut of acclaimed Irish rapper Rejjie Snow.Since then, it has screened at a number of festivals around the globe, including the Shanghai International Film Festival and the Galway Film Fleadh.
“Something that I immediately connected with was this idea of attempting to portray someone who was dealing with so much, and that there was a short of redemption and a short of a second chance. Peter told how things have changed for Frankie at that stage, and that “he’s lost a lot of what he had, but without being too cheesy, he’s gained perspective.”
“I didn’t need him in my head while I was playing the younger Frankie at all. They weren’t connected, really. “He flew too close to the sun and got too embroiled in the ideal of success, whatever that was at the time.” “I remember someone saying that Irish actors, they’re not lateral. They’re vertical, in that we’re connected to both the ground and to the sky. We can bring the past and the earth in, and we’ve a way of portraying this honestly.“And it’s so amazing to see us getting right to the very top of the pyramid — and I think it is that.
He said, “My dad saw it when I was younger. I was in college and I wasn’t really one of studying — I was one for hanging in the general vicinity of the library, but not necessarily within the library itself. “And then when I was a student, I was up at like, half five or six every morning. He said it was the first time that he saw that kind of spark in me. Then, I started to believe it could be something I could do.
He said, “What I would say is that I’d make sure they had something else that they could do while acting. If they were creative, it’d be, ‘would you like to write short stories?’, ‘are you into design?’
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