The Banshees of Inisherin (2022)

Barry Keoghan: Dominic Kearney

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• Dominic Kearney : Howdo!

  Siobhan Súilleabháin : Jesus Christ, Dominic! Would you ever stop creeping up on people? You almost gave me a fecking heart attack!

  Dominic Kearney : I wasn't creeping up on ya. I was sliding up on ya.

  Siobhan Súilleabháin : Between you and that ghoul, Jesus!

  Dominic Kearney : I always call her a ghoul, too, because she is a ghoul. Jeez, we have a lot in common, don't we? Me and you. Calling old people ghouls and that. It's a great old lake, isn't it? I'm glad I caught you, actually. Because there was somethin' I was wantin' to ask ya, actually. And discovering how much we have in common... well, it just makes me want to ask you even more.

  Siobhan Súilleabháin : We don't have anything in common.

  Dominic Kearney : Don't skip ahead. But yeah, what I was wantin' to ask you was... Somethin' along the lines of... Should've planned this, really. Well, yeah, what I was wantin' to ask you was... You probably wouldn't ever want to, I don't know... to fall in love with a boy like me, would ya?

  Siobhan Súilleabháin : Dominic, I don't think so, love.

  Dominic Kearney : No, yeah, no. I was thinking no. Not even in the future, like? Like when I'm your age?

  [she nods negatively] 

  Dominic Kearney : Yeah, no, I didn't think so. Just thought I'd ask on the off chance, you know... like "faint heart" and that. Well, there goes that dream. Well... I best go over there and do whatever that thing over there I was gonna do was.

• Dominic Kearney : Look at this I found. A stick with a hook. What would you use it for, I wonder. To hook things that are the length of a stick away?

• Pádraic Súilleabháin : So you'd rather be friends with this fella, would ya? A fella who beats his own son black and blue every night that's he's not fiddling with him.

  Dominic Kearney : I never told him that, daddy. He's just drunk now.

• Dominic Kearney : What trouble are ya in with him?

  Pádraic Súilleabháin : He just... doesn't want to be friends with me any more.

  Dominic Kearney : What is he, twelve?

• Pádraic Súilleabháin : I don't like to be chatting about these types of things, Dominic!

  Dominic Kearney : What types of things?

  Pádraic Súilleabháin : Sisters with no clothes on!

  Dominic Kearney : You saw my daddy with no clothes on.

  Pádraic Súilleabháin : Till the day I die, I wish I hadn't.

  Dominic Kearney : Sure, don't I know it.

• Dominic Kearney : Shh. Daddy'll kill us if we wake him when he's been wanking.

• Pádraic Súilleabháin : What the hell was he hittin' you with?

  Dominic Kearney : A kettle was the final thing. I wouldn't minded, but for the spout.

• Dominic Kearney : Me, I pay no attention to wars. I'm again' 'em. Wars and soap.

• Dominic Kearney : I used to think you were the nicest of them. Turns out you're just the same as them.

  Pádraic Súilleabháin : I am the nicest of them.

• Dominic Kearney : Was you never wild?

  Siobhan Súilleabháin : Wild? Was I never wild? I don't know what you're talking about, Dominic. Wild how? Angry?

  Dominic Kearney : Not angry. Wild

  Siobhan Súilleabháin : You just keep saying wild, Dominic!

• Dominic Kearney : If we sat next to Colm, the women would have to talk to us too, and then we could get at them with our small talk.

• Dominic Kearney : Tout chez.

  Pádraic Súilleabháin : What?

  Dominic Kearney : Chez? Tout chez? It's from the French?