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Wednesday, 30 August 2017

‘Game of Thrones’ Star to Head James Joyce Biopic

By Farah Cheded

Aidan Gillen’s next role is very un-Littlefinger-like.

After this weekend’s Game of Thrones finale, “Petyr Baelish” actor Aidan Gillen should have a little more time on his hands. As per Deadline, though, he’s already found a new project: he’ll be leading the indie production James and Lucia with a portrayal of celebrated Irish author James Joyce.

The film, an emotional portrait of the writer’s later years, will explore James’s doting relationship with his eponymous daughter — she was, briefly, a successful dancer, even taking a small role as a toy soldier in Jean Renoir’s The Little Match Girl. Lucia’s star fell before it could ever really rise, though: troubled by an unstable, migratory childhood, fraught familial relationships, and romantic rejection, she became a one-time patient of Carl Jung in her twenties, and was eventually diagnosed with schizophrenia.

For all his part in her unsteady upbringing, James proved himself a devoted father, never faltering in his efforts to protect his daughter from the attempts of others to inflict on her the popular “remedies” of the time — namely, lobotomization and institutionalization, a particularly horrible prospect given the period’s attitudes towards mental illness.

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