He could be the late Democratic Unionist Party leader Having won major acclaim (and an acting award at Cannes) for his performance in Mr. Turner, Timothy Spall has his eye on another job playing a real person. He’s in talks to play the late Sir Ian Paisley in The Journey.While it sounds mostly like an excuse for our Chris to roll out his Paisley voice for the Podcast, Nick Hamm’s film is actually chronicling the story of how two seemingly implacable enemies – Paisley, the stalwart, vocal leader of Northern Ireland’s Democratic Unionist Party and Sinn Fein’s Martin McGuinness – who had to find common ground and make history.