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The last time Kerry Condon worked with Colin Farrell, he punched her in the face. Or, rather, his character did: an Irish criminal in the 2003 dark comedy Intermission, who charms Condon’s store cashier before suddenly jabbing her in the nose and running off with the till.
“That’s all the part I had,” Condon tells The Daily Beast’s Obsessed. While a key player in the film’s memorable opening sequence, it’s the last you see of her in the film. “I was kind of bitter about it at the time, I remember.” Yet she also takes pride in the role. “I was glad, because it was a cool scene,” she says. “You didn’t really see the ending coming. But I felt even then that I deserved more, because I’m definitely capable of a bigger part.”
Nearly 20 years later, the actors have reunited—and the characters they play are on much friendlier terms. Condon is speaking to us about the experience in the library at the Savannah College of Art and Design, where she’s in town to receive the Distinguished Performance Award at the SCAD Savannah Film Festival for her work in her new film, The Banshees of Inisherin. In it she proves that point about deserving the bigger part. And then some.