Posted on 1/31/06 at 11:12 PM

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Irish Sunday Independent



Cast to type perhaps, Shane appeared as a drunken minstrel in The Libertine which starred his friend Johnny Depp as the rapacious Earl of Rochester. Shane's movie career isn't over. He returned from New York last month where he met Depp and author JP Donleavy to discuss the filming next year of Dunleavy's masterpiece The Ginger Man. Depp will play the lead while Shane will play Brendan Behan.



When I asked Shane was Dunleavy writing the script, his response was hilarious. "Of course he's going to write the ****ing script for Christmas! He's hardly going to hand it over to ****ing Tom Stoppard!" he laughed. "Or you! Or me! JP is going to expand the Brendan Behan part."