Sunday Independent – Cast to type perhaps, Shane [McGowan] appeared as a drunken minstrel in The Libertine which starred his friend Johnny Depp as the rapacious Earl of Rochester. Shane’s movie career isn’t over. He returned from New York last month where he met Depp and author JP Donleavy to discuss the filming next year of Dunleavy’s masterpiece The Ginger Man. [It is rumored that] Depp will play the lead while Shane will play Brendan Behan.
