"Most
of my years in the business have actually been spent in the theatre and now it's
levelling out a bit. I have done a hell of a lot more TV than theatre and I would
like to think that I could mix both because they are completely different disciplines
and I was trained for the theatre not TV. I enjoy the danger of theatre and sometimes
when you're doing TV, the danger is not in the performance, but whether you are
going to get electrocuted or something!
"My character Sean Dillon is a man who has returned to what was the family
farm having been away for nearly eighteen years. He had left under a bit of a
cloud because he couldn't get on with his father. It was a very painful leaving
that he had to take. And now that his parents have died, the family farm has become
available. His own wife has died about eight months prior to his returning - so
he was a man at the crossroads and it became an obsession that he would go back
and take over. He wasn’t immediately welcomed, when he returned, not because
of anything he had done but because of what his father had done. But he was eventually
welcomed back into the community. "He
is a very astute man. I like to think he is a very sensitive soul, but there’s
an element of his father’s son in him, which I quite like as well. I don’t
think he’s squeaky clean the whole time. He actually did some horse dealing
and I was quite keen that he was seen to be able to do that; to hunt out bargains
as well as the next person. I think he is a decent chap … which is a departure
from the characters I play!  | "Am
I anything like the character I play? Sometimes. Except I have not been married,
I do not have a 16 year old daughter. Although I did leave Ireland about 18 years
ago from my own career point of view - so there is a similarity there, and I am
back working at home in Ireland. That is something that I like doing and that
has only come about in the last few years.
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terms of his temperament, I would like to think that I did not get so het up about
things the way he does.. But we are talking about drama so there’s got to
be some angst going on somewhere. We don’t often see characters do nothing
in drama. Something is always happening to them, which is what makes it drama
in the first place. "I
suppose I am similar to him in that I bought my self a retreat to get away to
and I’ve spent the last couple of years doing exactly what Sean Dillon has
been trying to do to that house." Lorcan
went on to talk about his favourite scene and some of the people he admires in
the cast. You
can hear it exclusively here.
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