Patrick Bergin of Julia Roberts' character in the thriller "Sleeping with the Enemy" and is also known for his role as Irish terrorist Kevin O'Donnell in the film adaption of "Patriot Games". Bergin also appeared as Robin Hood in a 1991 TV film. In 2013 he played notorious Glasgow gangster Arthur 'The Godfather' Thompson in "The Wee Man". Bergin joined the BBC soap "EastEnders" towards the end of 2017, departing in March 2018. Currently, he leads Patrick Bergin and the Spirit Merchants. Bergin had a top 10 hit in Ireland with the song "The Knacker", which tells the story of a person
Sleeping Beauty (2011 film) director Julia Leigh, primarily a novelist, said in an interview with "Filmmaker Magazine" that she initially wrote the film without the intention of directing it. In writing the script, Leigh drew from several literary inspirations, including Yasunari Kawabata's "House of the Sleeping Beauties" and "Memories of My Melancholy Whores" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, as well as the eponymous fairytales by Charles Perrault and The Brothers Grimm, and the biblical story of an old King Solomon who had young virgins brought to him from all over his realm to sleep alongside him. She also noted the phenomenon of images of sleeping