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Kenneth Branagh promoting his movie Belfast on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert → November 11 2021

Colbert: “Does Belfast still feel like your hometown?” Branagh: “Yes. You know, you can take the boy out of Belfast but you can’t take Belfast out of the boy. I think [that is what] one of the things the film says, because a lot of it is about leaving, and a lot of people understand that. I’ve been very moved by people from around the world, an Iranian film-maker who came to see it [at Belfast Film Festival], came out and said, “That’s my story.” A Nigerian came out and said that, “That’s my story.”

I think what the story suggests and hopes you can do is, take your home with you, if your home is meaninful to you. I think where we start is meaningful to us, even if we have to let it go, or go back and live in a slightly different way, or sometimes maybe just carry it inside us. And, of course, home isn’t necessarily the bricks and mortar, although in this case it partly is, but it’s family. Home is family. We had the usual kind of dysfunctional family. Where I lived, it was not an idyll but it was, unquestionably, a home. Going back and touching that and feeling that, and hearing the music of it, the music of the language, the music of the accents and everything, was a wonderful thing to be able to do.“

Interview magazine, November 2017