Given, and here comes the excuse, I’m on holidays I missed this one. It’s not every day one of the greatest directors on the planet stops in your backyard. Well, that might be a slight exaggeration, but the Jurassic Park director stopped by the other day when he landed in Shannon airport, on route to the Royal wedding in Monaco. And was it for a refuelling purpose, or maybe some duty free, like shit it was. Steven Spielberg drove to Ballyvaughan, Co Clare for some berry cheesecake.
The following is via the Irish Indo
“He walked in on a busy Saturday and said, 'I'm back for the cheesecake',” Mr Clarke told the Irish Independent. “When a Hollywood director walks in like that it's a bit surreal.”
Spielberg discovered the tearoom in 2009 when he was staying with a group of fellow Americans who rent holiday cottages in the area each summer.
Mr Clarke said he was taken aback when one of the group reserved the tearoom for a private party and informed him that a VIP would be in attendance, whom they soon learned would be no other than Spielberg.
“We were so overwhelmed that this man was coming to sample our food,” he said.
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Great stuff. No doubt all us Irish movie geeks will have to make the trip for cheesecake now as well. Here’s hoping he had JAWS big enough to DUEL it out with the cheesecake.
