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Colm Meaney Remembers Alan Parker: ‘A Master Who Could Work in All Genres’

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Colm Meaney Guest ContributorIrish actor Colm Meaney reflects on his relationship with “Midnight Express” and “Evita” director Alan Parker, who died last week.I first met Alan in 1990 when auditioning for “Come See the Paradise”, his remarkable and, I think, under-appreciated film about the internment of Japanese-Americans during World War Two.

He was seated across a table, behind a camera, smoking and reading the part of the brother to the character I was reading for.I remember thinking, “How can he judge what I’m doing when he’s so busy operating the camera, reading the other character and not burning his fingers?“ I later learned that this was Alan’s preferred way of watching a scene.During takes, he always sat right beside the camera,.

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