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Brian Hayes Currie is an actor and writer who has appeared in movies such as Green Book, Armageddon and Con Air. He was born in 1961 and has won two Oscars for his screenplay of Green Book.
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Dec 18, 2018 · By Nick Vallelonga and Brian Hayes Currie. Dec. 18, 2018 5:30 AM PT. Nick Vallelonga: “Green Book” is based on a true story that happened to my father, Frank ‘Tony Lip’ Vallelonga in the...
Brian Hayes Currie was born in 1961. He is an actor and writer, known for Green Book (2018), Armageddon (1998) and Con Air (1997).
- Actor, Writer, Producer
Brian Hayes Currie is known as an Actor, Writer, Producer, Screenplay, and Executive Producer. Some of his work includes Green Book, Armageddon, Me, Myself & Irene, The Game Plan, Con Air, McFarland, USA, Beverly Hills Ninja, and Bio-Dome.
- Dr. Shirley Gave His Blessing For The Movie, with One Key Stipulation
- Shirley Was “On His Own Sort of Island”
- Tony Lip Emerged from The Road Trip A Changed Man
- A Year and A Half on The Road
- A Lifelong Friendship
Tony Lip and Don Shirley died within five months of each other in January and April 2013, respectively. It was during the late 1980s that Nick Vallelonga told the pair he wanted to make a movie based on their experiences. Shirley’s response: Do it — but “not until after I’m gone,” Vallelonga recalls. Vallelonga says that he tried to reason with Dr....
Though Vallelonga says he does not know why Shirley wanted him to wait, audiences might guess, like Vallelonga does, that Shirley’s sexuality played a role. “I think that’s the reason he wanted me to wait — he didn’t tell me that, but that’s what I assume,” he says. In one scene in the movie, Vallelonga comes to the rescue of Shirley, who has been ...
Green Bookdoes not hold back in depicting Lip as racist, both before embarking on the road trip, and during the first part of the pair’s travels. He refers to black people using racial slurs and throws away glasses that black servicemen drank out of while doing work in his home. He frequently makes assumptions about Shirley — the music he must like...
The road trip that forged a lifelong bond actually lasted one and a half years, not just two months, as the movie shows. Essentially, that’s the only creative license the filmmakers took with the story, Vallelonga says. Some cities and events are incongruous with the real-life timeline, but the events of Green Bookdid happen at one point during the...
Tony Lip, with his larger-than-life personality, colorful language and penchant for breaking up fights, couldn’t have been more different from Don Shirley, the virtuoso who sat silently on a “throne,” as Lip called it, refusing to eat with his hands and speaking with aristocratic diction. But they were as close as friends could be, Vallelonga says....
Nov 18, 2018 · PEABODY — Brian Hayes Currie may not have a big online celebrity profile, but that could change now that “Green Book” is in movie theaters nationwide this week.
Nov 30, 2018 · Peabody native and graduate of St. Johns’ Prep in Danvers, “Green Book’’ co-writer Brian Hayes Currie discusses the Peter Farrelly film. Read more on Boston.com.
