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1	* ActorInspiredElement: Eileen Walsh chose to play Crispina as someone who was happy in the laundry, at least at first.
2	* CaliforniaDoubling: The film was shot in Scotland.
3	* CreatorCameo: Peter Mullan plays Una's father.
4	* DawsonCasting:
5	** A justified example. Nora Jane Noone was eighteen playing the teenage Bernadette. But the film covers a few years, matching Bernadette's age with Nora's by the end.
6	** Eileen Walsh was also a couple of years older than Crispina is said to be.
7	* FakeIrish:
8	** West End veteran Geraldine [=McEwan=] as Sister Bridget.
9	** Southall native Anne-Marie Duff as Margaret. Her parents however are Irish.
10	** Downplayed by Chris-Patrick Simpson, who is Northern Irish, but puts on a Dublin accent to play Brendan.
11	** Director Peter Mullan is Scottish, playing Una's Irish father.
12	* RealitySubtext: Nora-Jane Noone says that her father worked at one laundry when he was thirteen, doing a job similar to Brendan.
13	* TypeCasting:
14	** Anne-Marie Duff starred in this and the BBC's ''Sinners'' around the same time, also playing a "fallen" woman in Ireland. She called it a "spooky coincidence".
15	** One of Dorothy Duffy's only other roles was in an episode of ''Series/HolbyCity'' playing a pregnant woman.
16	* WhatCouldHaveBeen:
17	** Creator/VanessaRedgrave was cast as Sister Bridget. She dropped out due to her mother's ill health, and was replaced with Geraldine [=McEwan=].

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