Actress Kerry Condon brought her brother ‘small lucky charm’ to the Oscars

Actress Kerry Condon has revealed she’s bringing her younger brother to the Oscars next month, saying he’s her “little lucky charm”.

ondon was nominated for best supporting actress for her role in The Banshees of Inisherin.

She told Jimmy Kimmel that her brother had accompanied her to the Venice Film Festival and the Golden Globes and that he had become a “little lucky charm for us”.

Talking about her Oscar nomination, she said: “I still feel weird when I hear that, I just laugh, it’s so weird.”

This is not her first time attending the Academy Awards as she attended in 2012 for her role in the short film. Coastwon in the Live Action Short Film category.

“We were all ready at the house of my friend Oorlagh who produced it, and one of the friends who was with us decided to get the mushrooms.

“I was shocked. I thought it was the worst place to grow mushrooms, all these people and everything. He seemed great. He seemed like he was having a really great time. .

She told the American talk show host about growing up in the countryside in Tipperary and how she worked in a sandwich shop at age 12 to pay for acting classes.

“The premieres and content will go to Dublin and there is a premiere that took place when I was quite young going to be in Dublin.

“That is Man in iron maskand it was Leo (DiCaprio), right after Romeo and Juliet and everyone cheered for him. So that’s coming, and it’s for charities and if you spend £100 you can go. And I was working in this sandwich shop to make money for my acting classes, and I felt like I was going to blow it on this school ticket.

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“So I bought a ticket to go, and I bought an outfit and everything, I bought a dress and a shirt – I still have that shirt.

“I went, but Leo canceled the day before. So I returned the dress, but I kept the top.”

However, Condon has said she had another chance to meet DiCaprio when she was 19 and flew to Los Angles to look for an agent.

“We went to celebrate at Chatau Le Mas De Montet because when he was in Rome he was there, and I was like ‘oh my god’. But I went to the bathroom and while I was in it he came up and asked if he could smoke one of my cigarettes.