Eve Hewson poked fun at her dad Bono during her hilarious acceptance speech at the US-Ireland Alliance’s annual Oscar Wilde Awards.
The event returned on Thursday, March 9 to J.J. Abrams and Katie McGrath’s Bad Robot production company in Los Angeles.
Eve was honoured with the Wilde Card on the night, which Trina Vargo, president of the US-Ireland Alliance, noted “has been used to bring attention to rising talent who may not yet be a household name, but who we expect will be.”
During her acceptance speech, Eve poked fun at her dad Bono.
She thanked the U2 frontman “for building such a privileged life for me and my siblings that we are almost impossible to like”.
The actress wittily added: “Thank God we’re not tall, or we would all be models – and everyone would really, really f**king hate us.”
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Bono is set to star in a Netflix drama about U2, which will be produced by J.J. Abrams.
The popular filmmaker is no stranger to Irish shores, as he famously filmed scenes for Star Wars: The Force Awakens on the Kerry island of Skellig Micheal back in 2015.
Speaking exclusively to Goss.ie on the green carpet at the US-Ireland Alliance’s annual Oscar Wilde Awards on Thursday night, J.J. said he “can’t wait” to return to the Emerald Isle.
“We are working on a series about U2 so that would obviously by necessity shoot in Ireland,” he told us.
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