Rehearsals were a way of making sure they were hanging out. This film only works if people buy that these people love each other as best friends. “There was something electric between them that shone. “The minute we got Fionn and Lola’s tapes we knew they were special,” Freyne says. Fionn O’Shea and Lola Petticrew deliver like Curie and Mendeleev (or some other great chemist). It was vital to get the right chemistry bubbling between his two leads.
The delightful Dating Amber concerns two gay kids in 1990s Ireland who engineer a bogus romantic relationship to distract the circling bullies. David Freyne's film, a rural comedy set two years after being gay was decriminalised in Ireland, stars Fionn O'Shea and Lola Petticrew, whose chemistry is electricĭavid Freyne always knew that casting was the key to success with his second feature.
