By Declan O’Kelly

Chicago native and fifth-generation Irish-American Vince Vaughn took time out of his filming schedule in London recently to interview political leaders in Northern Ireland for a documentary he is making on Belfast’s murals, which he became interested in on an earlier visit to the city.

The 6’5’’ actor interviewed both republican and loyalist leaders about the art that has become a tourist attraction since the ceasefire in 1994.

He interviewed Sinn Féin President Gerry Adams in Anderstown, West Belfast in front of a mural of Kieran Doherty, an IRA hunger striker who died in 1981. He also interviewed Progressive Unionist Party leader David Ervine in front of a mural of workers entering the Belfast shipyards. Ervine explained that years ago you would not have had a mural such as this one because it would have been about politics and divisons. “The mural is the epitome of the change process that is going on in Northern Ireland. The murals are changing,” Ervine said in a RTE report.

Vaughn is currently shooting a movie with Judi Dench and Kevin Spacey about Santa's bitter older brother,who is forced to move to the North Pole.