As we approach the 2023 Oscars, the best-supporting-actress field is narrowing. Leading the pack? Two acting veterans—Black Panther: Wakanda Forever’s Critics’ Choice Award and Golden Globe-winning Angela Bassett, and Everything Everywhere All at Once’s SAG winner Jamie Lee Curtis—and the dark horse: BAFTA recipient Kerry Condon, who delivers an initially hilarious and ultimately gut-wrenching turn in Martin McDonagh’s The Banshees of Inisherin.
In the surreal tragicomedy, set on a fictional Irish isle in the 1920s, she plays Siobhán, the lonely but hard-headed sister of Colin Farrell’s Pádraic, who one day discovers that his best friend Colm (Brendan Gleeson) wants nothing more to do with him. Desperate for answers, Pádraic becomes increasingly erratic—and what begins as a whimsical yarn becomes suddenly violent. Through it, Siobhán attempts to broker a peace, but the conflict wears her down and, in the end, she sets sail for the mainland in hopes of a better life. It’s a decision that breaks her brother’s heart and leaves a gaping hole in the film, confirming the power of Condon’s performance.
When the 40-year-old Irish actor—who’s starred in McDonagh’s plays for over two decades, and appeared in Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri and Better Call Saul—logs onto Zoom to speak to me from her home in L.A. a week before the ceremony, she’s both excited and apprehensive. “I hope I can just enjoy it,” she says of her big night. “Whatever happens, it’s been a fairytale.” Dressed in pajamas and cuddling a stray cat that occasionally wanders into her home, she’s delightfully low-key and disarmingly charming, with the slightly dazed air of someone whose life has already changed drastically in a short space of time. A win would, of course, be utterly transformative.
Below, Condon tells us about her own experiences of being ghosted, how a profound loss helped her connect to Siobhán, what it was really like working with the now-famous Jenny the donkey, and why she’s looking forward to returning to her farm in Washington State.
Vogue: Firstly, how’re you doing? I know the last few months have been a bit of a whirlwind for you.
Kerry Condon: I’m good! They have been, but now there’s a little bit of calm before the storm. I have a few days off and it’s nice to have a little break from all the evening events and having to get dressed up. I’m also starting a new job two days after the Oscars, so I have to do some prep this week. It’s a movie called Night Swim, and it’s horror, which is a genre I’ve never done before. I really wanted to try it. Also I was a little bit nervous about that period after the Oscars—I knew that’d be the end of the line for this whole run and this movie, and I have a tendency to get sad once a chapter ends, so I thought the best thing to do would be to go straight back into work and distract myself.
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