CPI 2009: If home is where the heart is, then what of the heart which is set to wander? Andrew Hamilton chats to Clare-based filmmaker and actor Alan Cooke about his multi-Emmy-nominated film, Home.
When Irish actor Alan Cooke sets down in JFK next month, he will, in many ways, be returning home. Though no relatives will be there to greet him and few creamy pints will await his arrival in the local social houses, his return to this adopted city will have no less meaning. New York City, a place where dreams are made and crushed. A city with a heartbeat and soul, a place where - if you’re willing - existence can reveal itself as a thing of no surface but all feeling. Alan’s journey in New York began more than seven years ago, when a holiday turned into a break and a break turned into a five-year-long voyage of discovery. “I had no intention of going to New York for a long period of time, I really just went over there for a break. I was working as an actor over here and I just wanted to take a break for a couple of weeks but I ended up staying for over five years,” he says.
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