Most would agree that entertainer James Martin is anticipating his impending outing to Hollywood.
The star of An Irish Farewell, the short film that has proactively won a Bafta and is currently gunning for an Oscar, has an additional motivation to celebrate. Sunday's service falls on his birthday.
"The panther skin coat is emerging!" he says.
"I couldn't want anything more than to meet Tom Voyage. His film Top Weapon was fabulous. I couldn't want anything more than to meet Robert De Niro as we share something practically speaking. My name is really Robert James so it would be ideal to meet somebody who has a similar name. We're the two entertainers and we can both be surly on set, so perhaps it's a family thing!"
Martin, who has likewise featured in BBC One film Highs and lows and ITV's Marcella, plays Lorcan in Ross White and Tom Berkeley's film around two alienated siblings put together again after their mom's awkward demise.
More youthful sibling Lorcan lives and chips away at the family ranch in Northern Ireland yet with their mom (Michelle Fairley) gone, more seasoned sibling Turlough (Seamus O'Hara) gets back from London to declare that Lorcan - who has Down's condition - should move in with their auntie. Lorcan is unmistakably disinterested with the thought.
"Everybody needs to be free,
I'm extremely autonomous of my people," Martin says.
"It's vital [to show what individuals with realizing handicaps can do]. It's rare you get your own part on a show on the off chance that you have Down's disorder. Be that as it may, never jump to hasty conclusions.
"Lorcan's exceptionally autonomous however the adoration and the disdain and the feeling towards his sibling is phenomenal. Having that unique bond is great. If not for that extraordinary bond… he'd simply take a gander at him (Turlough) as a carer."
Tom Berkeley, Seamus O'Hara, James Martin and Ross White with their Bafta grant for best English short film
Picture inscription,(Passed on to right) Tom Berkeley, Seamus O'Hara, James Martin and Ross White commended their Bafta win the month before
White says the thought regarding a homecoming initially started to develop after he and Berkeley pursued a major life choice a couple of years prior.
"Tom and I met around quite a while back when we prepared as entertainers, we were living in London and composing plays too acting.
"As our professions went on, we were composing to an ever increasing extent and acting less. In 2019, we settled on this large choice to leave London, to return to our separate main residences, Belfast for me and Gloucester for Tom, and simply compose full-time and move from composing for theater into composing for screen.
"Around then we were contemplating having ventured out from home, and afterward returning back home and it feeling somewhat like, 'Would you say you are from that place once more?'"
In any case, they required a story, which dropped by chance when Berkeley went to a football match.
"I coincidentally saw two or three siblings who were sat a couple of lines in front of me watching the game, and the more youthful sibling, similar as in our story, had Down's condition," he tells me.
"There was a fascinating juxtaposition between what was an ordinarily fierce, loving sort of relationship, very confrontational, as they were watching the game. They were savagely mocking one another! And afterward... there was this other added layer of liability that was there between them also, which I saw as very convincing. There was simply something truly piercing about the relationship."
Berkeley makes sense of that it made them contemplate how individuals manage distress in various ways.
Seamus O'Hara, Paddy Jenkins (Father O'Shea) and James Martin
The siblings differ over Lorcan's future
"It was the possibility of two individuals who see the world contrastingly and handled feelings in an unexpected way. The more seasoned sibling - emotionless, a piece quelled, marginally skeptical. And afterward the more youthful sibling, who bears everything to all onlookers and has this godlike limit with regards to compassion.
"We figured it would be truly intriguing to see those two contrary energies go through the course of pain together."
While some portion of the storyline is connected to Lorcan having a learning inability and requiring support after the passing of his mum, White and Berkeley were sharp not to make that the sole concentration.
"We talked about the possibility of the person having Down's disorder... once, and afterward we simply didn't actually talk about it that much, since there were such countless different elements of that character that were seriously intriguing," says White.
"It wasn't at the front for us... what's more, meeting James as an entertainer, you see the multi-layered sides of his character, and really the Down's disorder is way down the rundown of intriguing things about James. He's a characteristic entertainer. He's alluring.
"With portrayal, it's insufficient just to slap someone in the thing and say we've taken care of our business. The job must be significant."
Berkeley adds: "Lorcan has the organization of his own story, he's not circling around different characters. He drives the plot."
The dark parody has by and large been given a warm gathering, with Amano Miura from Dublin's Incredible: The Irish Resettlement Historical center, stating: "The dynamic, clever, and endearing connection between siblings faces the crowd with existential inquiries concerning the main thing to us and where we truly call home."
Rukayat Moibi from MySohoTimes expressed: "An Irish Farewell is an aggressive picture that, in a delightful and endearing sense, nearly feels as though it very well may be beyond the short film sort."
A rollercoaster of feeling, the film sends you reeling from tears of misery one moment to tears of chuckling the following.
Seamus O'Hara and James Martin
White makes sense of: "There's the sort of room between the misfortune and the satire that feels like reality in the center.
"Coming from Belfast clearly there's this sort of hangman's tree humor we have with adapting to misfortune, and that felt like an explicitly Northern Irish thing in like that.
"It's a seriously male thing too," adds Berkeley.
Their past short film Roy featured David Bradley as an older single man experiencing depression.
"The two movies are about men battling or severely adapting to with anguish. Furthermore, I guess that is something perhaps we perceive as far as we can tell and from the chaps in our lives also."
An Irish Farewell is accessible on Mubi.