Grave business for John as he undertakes Irish cowboy role

JOHN Cusack, the star of some of your favourite 1980s teen comedies, is coming to Ireland to make a western movie. He has just joined the cast of Never Grow Old which, despite being set in the old west, is being filmed here. It’s about an Irish undertaker who profits when outlaws take over a peaceful American frontier town.

Cusack, right, has been working steadily since he made his debut in Class in 1983, where he appeared alongside Rob Lowe, Andrew McCarthy and Jacqueline Bisset. He followed that with roles in a string of hit movies including Sixteen Candles, The Sure Thing, and One Crazy Summer. One of his more iconic moments from a long career was in 1989’s Say Anything, which featured the boyish Cusack holding a beatbox over his head, while playing Peter Gabriel’s In Your Eyes, in an attempt to woo beautiful Ione Skye. They don’t make ’em like they used to…