Irish star Barry Ward (Bad Sisters, The End of the F***ing World) has a busy work schedule, but he visited the 60th edition of the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival (KVIFF) last week to introduce one of his latest films.
Ward has actually attended the Czech festival several years in a row now. “I was invited in 2023 to be a jury member for the main competition and had the time of my life,” he tells THR. Another member of that jury was Slovenian director Olmo Omerzu. “Over the course of the week, he cast me in his next film. So, some months later, we made his film Ungrateful Beings and almost a year to the day of meeting him, we wrapped on that film [which premiered at San Sebastian], and we came straight back to Karlovy Vary for the next festival to celebrate.”
This year, Ward traveled to Karlovy Vary with British documentary director Grant Gee’s fiction feature debut Everybody Digs Bill Evans, which premiered at Berlin and stars Norwegian actor and Joachim Trier regular Anders Danielsen Lie (Sentimental Value, The Worst Person in the World), Laurie Metcalf, Bill Pullman and Ward. He portrays jazz legend Bill Evans’ older brother Harry. The Irish actor introduced a jam-packed screening at the Czech fest and found time to chat with THR about the movie and upcoming projects.
