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Published: Fri, 6 Nov 2009
Description: http://www.onpointradio.org/2009/11/the-swell-season Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova of The Swell Season speak about their relationship in an interview with Tom Ashbrook, host of NPR's On Point, on Friday, Nov. 6, 2009.
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" I I just have to ask because -- fairly public but it just took -- gonna wanna know what do you do market spoke liberally but Q and what what happened to relationship. In whatever terms you and put it artistic and otherwise people will need everybody here's here's what happened you meet someone. You have a great friendship when we when we were developing characters from wants because John was very free but has the -- We sat down and talk to go what wants should be -- John Kearney director writer points. And we decided between Israel says it would be an authentic of these characters ever kissed on screen and it didn't feel right. It's certainly didn't feel right necessarily -- at the time and it it it was one of those things that. It would've done that would have made Mars character in authentic because my character was so strong and don't. So then after that we -- plunged into all of that them that -- below Venus and trotting around you know Oscars the whole moon being open yet and something happened you know something to do with our relationship. That went to a different place and then I think naturally we both decided and that went to a different place again which is. I think we graduated back into it you know or not fact we graduate forward to being friends again. I don't think myself remarkably sitting here playing the songs -- doing this interview. If we had gone true. You know like to -- like a minute if it if it had gone. You know pear shaped to put it to put it. You know. Bluntly I am. I think we have whom we've got a very strong French Open I think friendships last a long long time and to try to -- dance myself from our relationship into the last. Few years -- would. Would it would be selling short I think relationships can last forever. And a."
" Yeah I think the answer you know I think we we've. He counted -- go to something with content like you know and as for everything that happens and with the with the Oscars and and the fair among parents that their relationship. That's consecutive breaks -- makes you know you can eat -- you to survive and you don't. I'm actually survived it means that -- you know that it's made us stronger as a result. And I'm not I I I think. I think it is both love playing music together."