Domhnall Gleeson has described fellow actor Rachel McAdams as the "loveliest person I've ever met".
The Irish actor praised his fellow film star, who was recently recognised with a Hollywood Walk of Fame star for her contributions to film.
"Life, and more importantly, Hollywood, has taught me that you are not supposed to have it all. It is not fair to be everyone’s favourite person on set and the best actor in the room", McAdams said. "It is selfish of you to be a devoted mother of two, putting family above all else and a huge movie star continually knocking it out of the park commercially and artistically".
"It’s not okay to be a Hollywood star and a character actor, to be gifted at comedy and drama, to be unrestricted by genre or expectation and to be the loveliest person I’ve ever met in my life, that’s not how we do things".
Elsewhere, Gleeson went on to reference their 2013 romantic comedy, About Time where he stars as Tim who discovers that he can travel back in time to change the past to seek the woman of his dreams, Mary, played by McAdams.
Gleeson suggested that McAdams played the role so well that she made him believe that he could travel through town.
"No matter the role, I always believe the characters you create, I empathise with all of them. You make me understand all of them and in this way, you make everything better".
"Every movie, every genre, every character, every co-star, every set, every crew, every room you walk into, you make them all better, and we are very lucky to have you", he added. "So while joining the icons immortalised in these streets makes this a pretty cool day for Rachel McAdams, if you ask me, this is also a really cool day for the Hollywood Walk of Fame, because, as usual, Rachel McAdams is about to rock up and make it better".
Speaking at the Hollywood Walk of Fame, Rachel McAdams thanks fellow actors Gena Rowlands, and Sam Shepard, while paying tribute to her "beloved" co star Diane Keaton. Keaton who co starred alongside McAdams in The Family, died aged 79 last October.
She said: "I'd like to thank the stars up above down here, the legendary working actors who I was given the great gift to learn from the ones who are no longer with us".
"To name a few, the pioneering Gena Rowlands, the prolific Sam Shepard and my beloved Diane Keaton, who took me under her wing like I was her own daughter".
"She taught me that no matter how long you've been doing this, you have to leave everything you’ve got on the table", she added. "Each performance, you must muster up as much love as you possibly can and then you’ll only feel like a dumb, dumb idiot half the time in life".
McAdams is renowned for starring in Mean Girls, The Notebook and Spotlight. Other credits also include Midnight In Paris (2011), The Vow (2012), Doctor Strange (2016) and the upcoming thriller Send Help.
Last Summer, Gleeson was spotted supporting his father Brendan after he returned to the stage at Dublin's 3Olympia, starring in the play, The Weir. More on this here.
