Ask Jonathan Kerrigan transcript
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Jonathan Kerrigan
Casualty and Mersey Beat star Jonathan Kerrigan chatted to fans live online.
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Question from Lis Smith: What do you enjoy best Casualty or Mersey Beat?
Jonathan Kerrigan: Difficult to answer. I think I enjoyed Casualty more because it was my first TV experience and I still have all the cast as friends now. We'll wait to see what the next season of Mersey Beat brings.
Question from Caz Wright: Have you ever thought about producing any of your music?
Jonathan Kerrigan: By producing I suppose I produce my own music as it is at home in the studio but to sell it to the public or outside ownership, I wouldn't want to do it at all.
Question from Steve Gude: Did you have to take any police training to gain your role in Mersey Beat?
Jonathan Kerrigan: Yep. We went out for a few shifts with the local police. That was a real eye opener. It wasn't what I expected. They sit around for hours on end doing nothing and then all of a sudden they have to be 100% professional and switch on to that mode which they all did.
Question from Kay Freer: How did you start off acting?
Jonathan Kerrigan: I did a University degree in acting and then got a London agent. A week later, I was doing a Chemical Brothers music video. It was the one with Tim Burgess of The Charlatans. Six months later, I was in Casualty.
Question from Love: Do you do you get to do your own stunts?
Jonathan Kerrigan: Yeah I did all of my own stunts. I think you can always tell when it's a stunt double, they suddenly have really muscley arms!
Question from Kimberley Yapp: What is it like acting with Haydn Gywen?
Jonathan Kerrigan: It was like acting with the rest of the cast, a fabulous
experience.
Question from Cobwebsandstrange: What do you prefer: the bleached hair or the brown hair?
Jonathan Kerrigan: I prefer the brown hair. It's less time in the hairdressers.
Question from Cobwebsandstrange: Could you really do the job of a police officer?
Jonathan Kerrigan: No, not at all. I'm not disciplined enough, and I'm a coward!
Question from Lizzie Crouch: Could you become a nurse?
Jonathan Kerrigan: No, similar reasons really. Long hours and not enough pay. I'm too much of a skiver!
Question from Rhian Gregory: Other than choosing to be an actor what would you have been?
Jonathan Kerrigan: Hopefully I could have been a musician but that's an even harder business than acting. That's my other main interest as far as work goes.
Question from Kelly-anne Lynn: What`s your most embarrasing moment?
Jonathan Kerrigan: I do a lot of corpsing, I just laugh at everybody's misfortune. I was known as Giggles on set by the sound guy. If someone else is fluffing their lines, I would just laugh. We did about 18 takes once, me and David Hargreaves. It was a close up on me and he was reading his lines off camera. It just sent me in fits. About an hour and a half later we managed to finish the scene. The director was trying to make me laugh in the end as well. Everyone had a go!
Question from Mandy Shutt: First off congrats on a super show, nothing like it back in South Africa, are you a real life adrenaline junkie and if so, what is the most wildest thing done?
Jonathan Kerrigan: I've been sky diving in Cuba, scuba diving in Mexico and a lot of mountain biking here. A very tame version of all three.
Question from Jez Piglet: Have you ever considered doing a pantomime?
Jonathan Kerrigan: No I haven't. I can't dance, I can't sing and I look rubbish in tights! Then again, everyone can be bought!!!
Question from Stephen Attrill: Have you ever hurt yourself on set?
Jonathan Kerrigan: Yeah. Not badly though. I run round a corner chasing a criminal and he throws a dustbin at me. I think we did 12 takes and 10 of the takes landed in my face, so I got a nosebleed and a very stinging face from that.
Question from Simon Cook: What is your favourate film and why?
Jonathan Kerrigan: Cool Hand Luke. Difficult to say a favourite film but Paul
Newman's performance is superb.
Question from Villain 4ever: Do u surf the net at home?
Jonathan Kerrigan: Yes I do. Usually for internet movie databases and to order my melatonin from America. It really helps my sleeping thing!
Question from Kirsty: Are there any different programmes you would like to be in?
Jonathan Kerrigan: Yeah but unfortunately they're all American. The West Wing,
Sopranos, but unfortunately they're in America. I'd love to do comedy but nobody gives me a chance. Not sit coms, abstract I think, Monty Python-esque!
Question from David Buxton: Do you find it a draw back not having a scouse
accent?
Jonathan Kerrigan: No, not at all. We all started imitating John McArdle as he's the only scouse, and I think he's imported as well. We all did impressions of him but not on the actual series. In the first series, it mentioned I was transferred from Lincoln which is my home town so I got out of that one.
Question from Ireene Jones: Do you ever watch the programmes that you star in?
Jonathan Kerrigan: Yes I always do. Just to see what I've done. I can be more
objective when it's actually screened because you film it so long ago.
Question from Emily Wilson: Are you coming back to Lincoln?
Jonathan Kerrigan: Yes I will be as my parents are still there so I visit quite
regularly.
Question from Dave: It's your old friend Dave Ferry here! Congratulations on Mersey Beat, whats next?
Jonathan Kerrigan: Hopefully another series of Mersey Beat and I'm doing some more music at the moment.
Question from Jez Piglet: What was your favourite police show as a child?
Jonathan Kerrigan:I didn't watch police shows really. I watched films so Bullet was my favourite as a kid, and I suppose Kojack, but only because I wanted his lollipop!
Question from Kate P: What advice would you give to someone interested in a television career?
Jonathan Kerrigan: Pray! It's all in the lap of the gods, there's nothing you can do to help or hinder you. Stick at it. No matter what age you are you can still get into it, as long as you're interested in it and can afford to keep going to the auditions. You definitely need an agent though, especially a London agent.
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