Mo Chara, his bandmate, completes his statement. “They must be raging after getting all their daddy’s money—$30 grand for their diplomas—and we just mosey on in and maybe get nominated for an Oscar.”
A big-screen music biography will center on DJ Provai and Mo Chara, two thirds of the republican Irish-language rap combo Kneecap, who are the odd disciples of musical icons like Whitney Houston, Sir Elton John, and Freddie Mercury.
This one is unique in that they play themselves, despite having no prior acting experience, and their narrative is being delivered to the big screen as relative beginners rather than decades after it.
The fact that most musicians are already deceased before their biopics are produced tells us how fortunate we are, adds Chara.The band shot to fame after breaking out of west Belfast, yet not everything that they did made headlines. Due to their drug-related references, they were banned from the Irish public service broadcaster RTE. Some unionists and former British Tory government members criticized them for songs like Brits Out, which they claim is a satirical jab at government rule rather than all British people—”it only meant British soldiers and the British state out of Ireland, to leave Ireland be in charge of its own affairs,” according to Chara.
