CourteneyCox directs video for NI musician Foy’s new song

BANGOR musician Foy Vance has unveiled the music video for his latest single The Strong Hand, filmed and directed by Friends star Courteney Cox.

The video, shot on a Californian beach, features Foy with his partner and his children, Ella (16) and two-year-old Sonny, as well as a cameo from the Cougar Town actress herself.

Sharingaclipofthemusicvideo with her 5.5 million Instagram followers, the 55-year-old wrote: “I LOVE this song. I LOVE the people in this video. I’m lucky to have directed it.”

Her Friends co-star Lisa Kudrow, who played Phoebe Buffay in the hit US sitcom that spanned 10 years, showed her support for the video, remarking that it was “so good”.

Courteney first met Foy Vance through her long-term boyfriend, Snow Patrol star Johnny McDaid, and the pair have since become close friends.

The actress also shared a video of herself and the singer-songwriter performing a stripped back version of The Strong Hand in the living room of her Malibu beach house.

While the Co Down man sings and strums his acoustic guitar, she tickles the ivories.

Bangor-born performer Foy Vance with Friends star Courteney Cox, who directed his new music video

This isn’t the first time that Courteney has directed one of Vance’s music videos.

Foy’s track Coco, from his album The Wild Swan, was inspired by Courteney’s daughter Coco Riley Arquette.

The musician, who is signed to Ed Sheeran’s Gingerbread Man Records, said that as soon as he wrote the song “it was obvious

that Courteney would direct the video”.

Courteney was married to Coco’s father David Arquette from 1999 to 2013.

Following the divorce she began dating musician McDaid.

The actress told People magazine: “Johnny brought Foy into my life a few years ago, and immediately he became a very close

friend. He also got to know my daughter Coco, and a song was born.”

Cox added: “From the first time Foy played Coco for me — and every time I’ve heard it since — I’ve felt he captured not only Coco’s unique personality, but also the beautiful childhood innocence that sadly, but inevitably, fades with time.”