Barry Ward on queer fishing village romance On The Sea
Actor Barry Ward discusses his new film 'On The Sea', a queer romance set in a Welsh fishing village. He describes the film as a universal story about suppressed desires within traditional, macho working-class communities.
Why it matters
The film explores themes of identity and social expectations in isolated industrial settings, contributing to contemporary queer cinema.
Irish actor Barry Ward has said his new queer romance film, set in a Welsh fishing village, tells a universal story.
The Bad Sisters actor plays Jack, a mussel harvester who falls in love with Daniel, a younger itinerant worker, in Helen Walsh’s On The Sea .
Jack, who is married to his childhood sweetheart and lives in a community shaped by the church and the fishing industry, sees his world turned upside down when Daniel, played by Scottish actor Lorne MacFadyen, awakens desires he has spent most of his life suppressing.
Ward, 46, said the Welsh setting could represent communities anywhere in the world.
"I think that’s the point of the movie, in a way, that the Welsh location we chose can stand in for anywhere in the world," he told the Press Association.
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