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Introduce
yourself and the character that you play?
I play Danny Byrne a character who came into the Ballykissangel in the fourth
series and I came in on a bare back horse from Dublin. I’m a working class guy
and I’ve come into find my uncle Eamon Byrne who
I’ve never met before. I believe the police want to impound my horse because I
have no license to keep my it in Dublin. So I end up in Ballykissangel living
with my uncle. Is
there any similarity between you and Danny?
I suppose the obvious similarity
between Danny and me is age. It’s not a complex character. It’s just a young fella
who’s ended up in a place where he has never been before and he’s dealing with
a new place and new people. I’ve done that myself. I’ve lived in Australia for
a year with a couple of mates when I was seventeen, so you can relate to it fairly
easily. What
was the most enjoyable episode?
My favourite episode ... well anything
with my uncle. Any scene’s with Birdy Sweeney would by far be my favourite work.
Birdy died during the making of Series Five, and the second episode of the series
is dedicated to him. He’s going to be missed and he is missed. He was such a pleasure
to work with and just a gorgeous, gorgeous man. He was my Ma’s favourite character
by a mile. What was the
most difficult episode or scene?
The
most difficult episode was last year when myself and Kate McEnery who plays Emma
were getting it together and they had built up this romance.
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It wasn’t mind-blowingly
difficult, but it’s quite an unnatural thing when you’re good mates with someone
to snog them. And the same
this year, we have a snog. We’re great mates and we had a laugh about it, but
it’s fairly unnatural. You just feel there’s no way in the world it could be sexy.
But I’m sure they can make something of it in the editing suite - I hope. |
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