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Sat 01 Jan 2010Getting back to her roots
She found fame playing ordinary people in an extraordinary way - now Brenda Blethyn is set to appear in Dublin in an Edna O'Brien play
'SHE INHABITS a part. She lives it. She isit . . ." That's what the novelist and playwright Edna O'Brien thinks of Brenda Blethyn as an actor. That's why she re-modelled a script she had originally written in the 1960s and turned it into Haunted, a three-hander for Blethyn, Niall Buggy and Beth Cooke. And so the woman who has been a screen mother to Brad Pitt, Jake Gyllenhaal, Bobby Darin, Keira Knightley and the unfortunate mouse-boy Bruno from The Witchesis coming to Dublin to play the childless Mrs Berry, driven to distraction by her husband's interest in Cooke's doe-eyed ingenue.
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