Jessie Buckley & Colin Farrell

(Sunday Extra)

The warm, brilliant charismatic, dedicated conversation linked below between these two extraordinary artists about acting and life has a lot to say about the life of writers and what we can share with the world, ourselves, and other writers. It’s truly profound as these thoughtful and literate actors explore mystery, commitment, pain, grief, joy, and creativity.

Their moments of discovery in terms of the first time they watched actors may connect with your own moments of discovery in reading that first amazing book which absorbed you, changed you, cracked you open. That first book you read and realized this is the world I want to be in, this world of words that are magic.

So many times there were moments I had to replay because they matched my experiences seeing great actors like James Earl Jones and Gloria Foster when I was young, Christopher Plummer as Lear and Martha Henry as Mary Tyrone when I was older. As well as just marveling at their unpretentious eloquence, deep feeling, and warm connection.

How about you? Did you relate?