Fionn interviews Gerry Adams, a retired Irish Republican politician who was the president of Sinn Féin between 13 November 1983 and 10 February 2018, and served as a Teachta Dála (TD) for Louth from 2011 to 2020. From 1983 to 1992 and from 1997 to 2011, he won election as a Member of Parliament (MP) of the UK Parliament for the Belfast West constituency, but followed the Sinn Féin policy of abstentionism. Adams first became involved in Irish republicanism in the late 1960s, and was an established figure in Irish activism for more than a decade before his 1983 election to Parliament. In 1984, Adams was seriously wounded in an assassination attempt by the Ulster Defence Association (UDA). From the late 1980s onwards, he was an important figure in the Northern Ireland peace process, entering into talks initially with Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP) leader John Hume and then subsequently with the Irish and British governments. In 1986, he convinced Sinn Féin to change its traditional policy of abstentionism towards the Oireachtas, the parliament of the Republic of Ireland. In 1998, it also took seats in the power-sharing Northern Ireland Assembly. In 2005, the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) stated that its armed campaign was over and that it was exclusively committed to peaceful politics. Adams announced in November 2017 that he would step down as leader of Sinn Féin in 2018, and that he would not stand for re-election to his seat in Dáil Éireann in 2020. Recorded at the Galway Film Fleadh, just before the showing of the documentary Gerry Adams: A Ballymurphy Man. FIONNATHAN PRODUCTIONS is a project by a son and father team Fionn and Jonathan, intending to change the world, and have a good time while doing it. If you'd like to follow us through Facebook, join us at / fionnathan or follow us on Instagram / fionnathan If you want to follow us on X, we tweet @fionnathan / fionnathan If you want to explore a collaboration, reach out to us through / fionn-and-jonathan-angus-0612597b or check out our website http://fionnathan.com/

Fionn interviews Bob Odenkirk, an American actor, comedian, screenwriter, and producer. He started his career as a comedian and comedy writer before expanding his career by acting in dramatic works. His accolades include two Primetime Emmy Awards (out of 18 nominations), and three Critics' Choice Television Awards as well as nominations for five Golden Globe Awards. Odenkirk started his career writing for Saturday Night Live (1987–1991) and The Ben Stiller Show (1992), winning an Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Variety Series in 1989 and 1993. He also wrote for Late Night with Conan O'Brien (1993–1994) and acted in a recurring role as Agent Stevie Grant in The Larry Sanders Show (1993–1998). He is also known for the HBO sketch comedy series Mr. Show with Bob and David (1995–1998), and Netflix series W/ Bob & David (2015) which he co-created and co-starred in with fellow comic David Cross. As an actor, Odenkirk gained recognition and acclaim for playing Saul Goodman/Jimmy McGill on Breaking Bad (2009–2013) and its spin-off Better Call Saul (2015–2022). For the latter, he received six nominations for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series. He also starred as Bill Oswalt in the first season of the FX anthology series Fargo (2014), and the title role in the AMC series Lucky Hank (2023). He earned a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series for his role in The Bear (2024). Odenkirk made his directorial feature debut with Melvin Goes to Dinner (2003) followed by Let's Go to Prison (2006), and The Brothers Solomon (2007), and also wrote Run Ronnie Run! (2002), and Girlfriend's Day (2017). He took supporting roles in films such as Nebraska (2013), The Post (2017), Incredibles 2 (2018), and Little Women (2019). He starred in the action film Nobody (2021), which he also produced. On stage, he made his Broadway debut in a revival of the David Mamet play Glengarry Glenn Ross (2025). Recorded outside the Palace Theatre in New York City, after a performance of Glengarry Glenn Ross in March 2025. FIONNATHAN PRODUCTIONS is a project by a son and father team Fionn and Jonathan, intending to change the world, and have a good time while doing it. If you'd like to follow us through Facebook, join us at / fionnathan or follow us on Instagram / fionnathan If you want to follow us on X, we tweet @fionnathan / fionnathan If you want to explore a collaboration, reach out to us through / fionn-and-jonathan-angus-0612597b or check out our website http://fionnathan.com/

Fionn interviews Jake Gyllenhaal, an American actor who has worked on screen and stage for over thirty years. Born into the Gyllenhaal family, he is the son of film director Stephen Gyllenhaal and screenwriter Naomi Foner, and the younger brother of actress Maggie Gyllenhaal. He began acting as a child, making his debut in City Slickers (1991), followed by roles in his father's films A Dangerous Woman (1993) and Homegrown (1998). His breakthrough roles were as Homer Hickam in the biopic October Sky (1999) and a troubled teenager in the thriller Donnie Darko (2001). Gyllenhaal expanded to big-budget films with a starring role in the 2004 disaster film The Day After Tomorrow. Gyllenhaal played Jack Twist in Ang Lee's 2005 romantic drama Brokeback Mountain, for which he won a BAFTA Award and was nominated for an Academy Award. His career progressed with starring roles in the thriller Zodiac (2007), the romantic comedy Love & Other Drugs (2010), and the science fiction film Source Code (2011). Further acclaim came with his roles in Denis Villeneuve's thrillers Prisoners (2013) and Enemy (2013), and he received nominations for the BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role for his performances as a manipulative journalist in Nightcrawler (2014) and a troubled writer in Nocturnal Animals (2016). His highest-grossing release came with the Marvel Cinematic Universe superhero film Spider-Man: Far From Home (2019), in which he portrayed Mysterio. After playing a supporting role in the drama Wildlife (2018), Gyllenhaal starred in action or thriller projects, including the films The Guilty (2021), Ambulance (2022) and Road House (2024), as well as the series Presumed Innocent (2024). Gyllenhaal has performed on stage, starring in a West End production of the play This Is Our Youth (2002) and Broadway productions of the musical Sunday in the Park with George (2017) as well as the plays Constellations (2014) and Sea Wall/A Life (2019), the last of which earned him a nomination for the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play. Aside from acting, he is vocal about political and social issues. Recorded outside the Ethel Barrymore Theater in New York City, after a performance of Othello in March 2025. FIONNATHAN PRODUCTIONS is a project by a son and father team Fionn and Jonathan, intending to change the world, and have a good time while doing it. If you'd like to follow us through Facebook, join us at / fionnathan or follow us on Instagram / fionnathan If you want to follow us on X, we tweet @fionnathan / fionnathan If you want to explore a collaboration, reach out to us through / fionn-and-jonathan-angus-0612597b or check out our website http://fionnathan.com/

Fionn interviews Kieran Culkin an American actor known for portraying distasteful yet sympathetic characters across stage and screen. His accolades include an Academy Award, a BAFTA Award, a Primetime Emmy Award, and two Golden Globe Awards. Culkin began his career as a child actor in off-Broadway theater productions. He made his feature film debut alongside his older brother, Macaulay, in the Christmas comedy Home Alone (1990). After achieving his breakthrough role as a sardonic teenager in the comedy-drama Igby Goes Down (2002), which earned him his first Golden Globe Award nomination, Culkin took a break from the screen due to personal conflicts. He returned to film six years later by playing Wallace Wells in the action comedy Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (2010). Culkin won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance as a grief-stricken cousin in the buddy comedy A Real Pain (2024). On television, Culkin found a career resurgence with his portrayal of Roman Roy in the HBO drama series Succession (2018–2023), for which he won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series. His voice acting work includes roles in Solar Opposites (2022–present) and Scott Pilgrim Takes Off (2023). On stage, Culkin starred in the West End and Broadway productions of Kenneth Lonergan's This Is Our Youth. He also portrayed Richard Roma in the Broadway revival of David Mamet's Glengarry Glen Ross (2025). Recorded outside the Palace Theatre in New York City, after a performance of Glengarry Glenn Ross in March 2025. FIONNATHAN PRODUCTIONS is a project by a son and father team Fionn and Jonathan, intending to change the world, and have a good time while doing it. If you'd like to follow us through Facebook, join us at / fionnathan or follow us on Instagram / fionnathan If you want to follow us on X, we tweet @fionnathan / fionnathan If you want to explore a collaboration, reach out to us through / fionn-and-jonathan-angus-0612597b or check out our website http://fionnathan.com/

Fionn interviews Judy Heumann an American disability rights activist. She is recognized internationally as a leader in the disability community. Judy is a lifelong civil rights advocate for people with disabilities. Her work with governments and non governmental organizations, non-profits, and various other disability interest groups, has produced significant contributions since the 1970s to the development of human rights legislation and policies benefiting children and adults with disabilities. Through her work in the World Bank and the State Department, she led the mainstreaming of disability rights into international development. Her contributions extended the international reach of the independent living movement. Recorded at the Harkin International Disability Employment Summit in Belfast, Northern Ireland, June 2022. FIONNATHAN PRODUCTIONS is a project by a son and father team Fionn and Jonathan, intending to change the world, and have a good time while doing it. If you'd like to keep in touch through Facebook, join us at / fionnathan If you want to follow us on Twitter, we tweet @fionnathan / fionnathan Or check out our website http://fionnathan.com/

Fionn interviews Lucinda Williams, an American rock, folk, blues, and country music singer and songwriter. She recorded her first albums in 1978 and 1980 in a traditional country and blues style and received very little attention from radio, the media, or the public. In 1988, she released her self-titled album, Lucinda Williams. This release featured "Passionate Kisses", a song later recorded by Mary Chapin Carpenter, which garnered Williams her first Grammy Award for Best Country Song in 1994. Known for working slowly, Williams recorded and released only one other album in the next several years (Sweet Old World in 1992) before her greatest success came in 1998 with Car Wheels on a Gravel Road, an album presenting a broader scope of songs that fused rock, blues, country, and Americana into a more distinctive style that still managed to remain consistent and commercial in sound. It went gold and earned Williams another Grammy while being universally acclaimed by critics. Since Car Wheels on a Gravel Road, she has released a string of albums that have also been critically acclaimed. She was also named "America's best songwriter" by TIME magazine in 2002. Recorded at Vicar Street, Dublin, January 2016. FIONNATHAN PRODUCTIONS is a project by a son and father team, Fionn and Jonathan, intending to change the world, and have a good time while doing it. If you'd like to keep in touch through Facebook, join us at / fionnathan If you want to follow us on Twitter, we tweet @fionnathan / fionnathan Or check out our website http://fionnathan.com/

Fionn interviews Aidan Quinn, an American actor who made his film debut in Reckless (1984). He has starred in over 50 feature films, including Desperately Seeking Susan (1985), The Mission (1986), Stakeout (1987), Avalon (1990), Benny & Joon (1993), Legends of the Fall (1994), Frankenstein (1994), Blink (1994), Michael Collins (1996), Practical Magic (1998), and Unknown (2011). FIONNATHAN PRODUCTIONS is a project by a son and father team, Fionn and Jonathan, intending to change the world, and have a good time while doing it. If you'd like to keep in touch through Facebook, join us at / fionnathan If you want to follow us on Twitter, we tweet @fionnathan / fionnathan Or check out our website http://fionnathan.com/

Fionn interviews Arthur Kleinman, a prominent American psychiatrist and the Esther and Sidney Rabb Professor of medical anthropology and cross-cultural psychiatry at Harvard University, USA. He is well known for his work on mental illness in Chinese culture, was the chair of the Harvard Department of Anthropology from 2004–07 and currently serves as Director of the Harvard University Asia Center. Kleinman was married to Joan Kleinman, a sinologist at Harvard. Kleinman has co-authored many works with other celebrated psychiatrists and researchers in the field of mental health and cross-cultural psychiatry. Perhaps Kleinman's most influential work is Patients and Healers in the Context of Culture (1980), a groundbreaking work of medical anthropology. In 2006 Arthur Kleinman received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Society for Medical Anthropology, and in 2008 received from the SMA the George Foster Award. He has supervised more than 65 Ph.D. students (including 12 M.D.-Ph.D. students), and worked with more than 200 post-doctoral fellows, and he has taught hundreds of medical students and undergraduate students. Recorded at the Anthropology Association of Ireland Conference in Maynooth, March 2016. Fionn and Jonathan were co-presenters with Professor Kleinman, and where told by him that they are "the best father and son team I've ever met." FIONNATHAN PRODUCTIONS is a project by a son and father team, Fionn and Jonathan, intending to change the world, and have a good time while doing it. If you'd like to keep in touch through Facebook, join us at / fionnathan If you want to follow us on Twitter, we tweet @fionnathan / fionnathan Or check out our website http://fionnathan.com

Fionn interviews American actress Marisa Tomei. Following her work on the television series As the World Turns, she came to prominence as a cast member on The Cosby Show spin-off A Different World in 1987. After having minor roles in a few films, she came to international attention in 1992 with the comedy My Cousin Vinny, for which she received an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. Tomei has appeared in a number of successful movies, including What Women Want (2000), Anger Management (2003), Wild Hogs (2007), and Parental Guidance (2012). Other films, include Untamed Heart (1993), Only You (1994), The Paper (1994), Unhook the Stars (1996), Slums of Beverly Hills (1998), Before the Devil Knows You're Dead (2007), Cyrus (2010), Love Is Strange (2014) and The Big Short (2015). She received two additional Academy Award nominations for In the Bedroom (2001) and The Wrestler (2008). She has also portrayed Aunt May in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, appearing in the films Captain America: Civil War (2016), Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017) and in the upcoming Spider-Man: Far From Home (2019). Tomei has also worked in theater. She was formerly involved with the Naked Angels Theater Company and appeared in plays, such as Daughters (1986), Wait Until Dark (1998), Top Girls (2008), for which she received a nomination for the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play, and The Realistic Joneses (2014), for which she received a special award at the Drama Desk Awards. Recorded at the world premiere of Behold My Heart at the Galway Intl Film Festival, July 2018. FIONNATHAN PRODUCTIONS is a project by a son and father team, Fionn and Jonathan, intending to change the world, and have a good time while doing it. If you'd like to keep in touch through Facebook, join us at / fionnathan If you want to follow us on Twitter, we tweet @fionnathan / fionnathan Or check out our website http://fionnathan.com/