Oscar-nominee Jessie Buckley has admitted she thought her brother was joking when he told her she was nominated for an Oscar.
The Kerry native has been nominated for her first Academy Award for her performance in pyscho-horror The Lost Daughter. She’s garnered her a nomination for best actress in a supporting role.
Jessie revealed it was her brother, Killian, who told her she was nominated – and admitted she thought he was joking.
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She said: “I thought he was joking. It’s just something that doesn’t happen in life.”
Buckley revealed she already has plans for after the Academy Awards – she’ll hibernate in her 500-year-old house in rural England and bake nothing “sourdough fancy,” just her dad’s recipe for brown bread.
“I’m like Houdini. I’m going to disappear, take some time out and just do life. I can’t wait.”
But after Sunday night’s 94th Academy Awards, Jessie is set to add another string to her bow – she plans to release an album, which was produced by Bernard Butler, guitarist of indie icons Suede.
For All Our Days That Tear the Heart will be a 12-track long-player created and produced in collaboration with Butler.
The album, which was inspired after critics praised her vocals in 2019’s Wild Rose, is slated for release this summer on the British label EMI, now an imprint of the Universal Records conglomerate.
“I feel a bit shy about it,” she told the New York Times.
“It was a really pure, beautiful, untainted thing, and a bit of a secret.”
The pair have been meeting up for the past two years to work on the record, assembling demos on Butler's iPhone at the end of each session and building on those ideas.
“And then we’d say goodbye,” she added.
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