As both her name and Celtic colouring suggest, Reilly’s parents are Irish, though she grew up in Chessington, Surrey and considers herself English. “I was born within a Catholic family, but I knew very early on that I’d not be taking communion,” she says. “All that doctrine didn’t resonate with me. I didn’t need it to feel the relationship with my spiritual beliefs. That’s where the film really spoke to me; it goes so far beyond religion and into the personal faith of what it is to be human and a good person – all things that have possibly been covered up by the bull---- the church has built around it.”
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