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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