Glen Hansard’s charm and humility

Sir, – When I was a student, I interviewed Glen Hansard for my university newspaper in Bristol.

He was promoting Once and it seems unthinkable now that an Oscar winner would take 45 minutes to indulge a student asking some questions about his film. I can’t imagine mine were the most insightful or original he faced that day.

He recognised my Northern Irish accent immediately, ordered us each a Guinness and we discussed our thoughts on Ireland after we had finished talking about the film. He was charming and remarkably humble.

Truly a great loss to all. – Yours, etc,

RM Block

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PATRICK PEAKE,

London.