In Bruges

Michael McDonagh and Colin Farrell on In Bruges

MM: Yeah, that’s true. The restaurant scene is all red, and the design is deep red. I like that. Mean Streets was quite like that, and all of the Powell and Pressburger films in the 1940s had that. It’s a great colour.

EC: Your next thing, I heard, might be a play?

MM: Possibly. I’m going to take a big break. The next thing I write will probably be a play, but I’ve got another film bubbling away in my head, too. I’ve got two film scripts ready to go, so if I’m going to do another one – another film – it will be that. But I don’t think I’m going to do another film for at least two years.

CF: C***. That’s me out of work. . . The script that you were going to give to the director before – is that something you’d like to direct if it came around again?

MM: Yeah. I’ll show it to you, actually. I don’t think it’s as good as In Bruges, but there’s something weirdly cool and strange about it.

CF: I might know a good actor for you . . .