ANAHEIM, Calif. — It’s two days after Colm Bairéad attended the 2023 Oscar nominees luncheon and the Irish writer-director of “The Quiet Girl” is still processing his first time at the star-studded annual event.
“Was that a dream? I’m not sure if that actually happened,” Bairéad says, laughing, when asked about his social media photos with such luminaries as Steven Spielberg and Guillermo del Toro, as well as with a flock of his fellow Irish nominees from “The Banshees of Inisherin.”
“I’m glad there’s photos to prove that actually happened,” he says. “But yeah, what an experience, meeting all these sort of giants of cinema and just personal heroes of mine. It was an extraordinary, just a beautiful occasion.
