Bruck and Me

Screenwriter Stephen Walsh interviewed Veronica Guerin producer Jerry Bruckheimer during that film's shooting in Dublin. Nothing prepared him for the strange (and from the point of view of Irish filmmaking strangely appropriate) emanations that would follow.

This is how it sounds: I was standing on the platform at Limerick Junction station, having been deposited there by the train from Limerick itself. They'd just announced that the next train had already gone and the one after that wouldn't be along for three and a half hours. I looked to the left and right and saw nothing; no town or village to wander around in. So I sat down on the platform in front of a sign that declared "It's Time To Think About The Train", fished in my pocket for my Swiss Army knife and uncorked the nice Chateau LaGurgue I'd been thoughtful enough to stow in my bag. I was no more than a couple of sips into my first plastic cupful when who should I see- seemingly also waiting for a train- but major international Hollywood producer mister Jerry Bruckheimer.

The full article is printed in Film Ireland 93