Flowers and Son director John Carney has praised Eve Hewson for accepting a musical role when her father is U2 star Bono.
In the new musical comedy-drama, the Execrable Sisters actress plays young mum Flowers, who finds an acoustic guitar in a skip and bonds with her rebellious teenage son over song.
Talking to Leisure Weekly, Carney praised the 32-year-customary for having the courage to be aware in her father’s footsteps on-show.
“I don’t mediate she has ever draw of herself as a singer,” the Content Avenue filmmaker shared. “She became never going to are trying and save her hand over the handprint of her dad within the cement. Never. And she’s true because he is one of the very finest rock voices of many, many a long time.
“And but she had the courage and confidence to plug advance this section because she understood that or now now not it’s now now not about her being an excellent singer or the rest esteem that. She didn’t want to be a gargantuan singer, but she will preserve a tune. She’s obtained a perfectly nice instruct. Nonetheless I don’t mediate the movie is about her being a fab singer.”
The Once director directly knew Hewson became “a match made in heaven” for Flowers when he met her over Zoom.
“She made the Zoom name in actuality feel esteem any one else coming after the Zoom name would now now not be her. I obtained off the name asserting, ‘Effectively, now it has to be her.’ She made true on that promise. She in actuality did choke the hell out of that section every day,” he praised.
Flowers and Son, also starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt, is streaming now on Apple TV+.