"'I'd seen him on stage before I did Angel,' (Neil)
Jordan has said of his favourite actor, 'and I remember thinking
he was like a movie actor, you know, one of those grand and impassive
stars such as James Dean or Robert Mitchum. I wrote Angel
with him in mind. I write a lot of my scripts with him in mind.
He has an extraordinary range.'"
- From
a profile of Stephen Rea
published in the Play section of London's The Times, June 2002.
As Danny in Neil Jordan's Angel,
aka Danny Boy, 1982