Congrats on the show.
Yeah, yeah.
That's the biggest thing I've ever been in
Well, like, I know I'm doing my own selling before, but, like,
isn't this the longest amount of time I've ever been on screen as a character?
And it's been a huge experience and massive leap in my career.
Absolutely amazing to be part of it. Yeah.
I spoke to Charlie [Cox] on Friday,
and I was telling him about how I'd watched the first two episodes,
and it's one of those shows where I couldn't just sit and, like,
watch them all together, though.
I kind of wanted to wait and, like, pace myself
because there's a lot that goes on in those first two episodes.
Oh yeah.
Kind of changes the dynamics and things go on, and I won't spoil it for anybody,
but there's a lot that goes on.
So was it an easy sell for you when you read the scripts for the first time?
Was it an easy thing that you that you really wanted to
to at least try to be involved with and then obviously get a job?
Yeah, like, I mean, the script is just so gripping.
I mean, I remember just sitting down to read it, and then I didn't
get up again until episode four I got sent for.
So and then I was like, Oh, I need to be,
you know, I just got I was like, Oh, I was in it.
And I just thought like, Oh my God, this guy peters off to writing something.
So it was very short or simple and it was very confident, but it's up
because it had this kind of distilledness.
It wasn't like a lot of words on the page. It was real.
Just like, I know who these people are on each character
you just feel this depth of history behind everything.
And I think it was maybe I think it's happening a bit more
now in dramas where you get more insight into what's going on behind the scenes.
For a character, it's like they have their mask fronts,
like with all the other people and then who they are behind closed doors.
And I feel like this this is one of those things,
and that's why I got really interested, because I was like, God, Amanda is like,
she's in this guy finally.
But why?
Like, and how did she get there?
And like, it was more of it, like question how she made those decisions
in the first place.
We can study her there
and then spend most of her time trying to keep her kids out of this
so I was like, she's very brave, like to be in that family
and then try and quietly be pushing her own agenda.
And so, yeah, it was really interesting right from the start.
Yeah. And there's a real sense of Charlie,
there's a real richness in terms of the characters because on TV
is having such a kind of I say Renaissance has always been around
but in terms of the stories, in the way that people
are able to tell stories now, they tend to go to TV.
And, you know, in the old days it would be like, oh, we know you're going to TV.
That's the end of your career.
Whereas now it's a complete opposite.
You can tell these amazing, amazing stories.
And you must have been delighted when you saw Amanda.
And in terms of the layers on her story, and like you say, the back story that
I may find out about as the episodes go on, I may not,
but there must be real excitement to to that to know to spend that much time
with the characters when sometimes you wouldn't normally.
Definitely.
Like, I felt like I got like basically I felt like I'd spent my whole career
going for TV jobs, not getting them.
And then on gosh, it's like the universe delivered the most incredible,
layered person to be discovering as I go as well.
And I felt like I had something like the level of you, right?
Like in writing, but I felt like I had somebody that
I will be digging about and I still will be
if I season to do, you know, that way it was like, this is this
deep like and there's a history here and it could go either way.
There's many, many options and get into play with those subtleties
and wonder what's behind such nuanced little moments.
And that was just seriously so.
And also, just as she gets to do so much like there's just loads of cool
things like, you know, sometimes you go for parts, then you're like, like,
I don't know, you could find it like you could be gone for pride that mostly
they just spend their time in bash or something or like in one room.
It's like Amanda is like out and about.
She's running a car dealership.
She's running a family, she's in the car.
She's been doing crazy stunts. She's like,
I don't know, like,
getting involved with type situations.
And, like, meeting over people that shouldn't we meet.
And it's all very cool and mad and like, she wears a different clothes
and all, like, develops as like.
So it was just the thrill of literally doing so much, like,
that was that was a big thing.
Yeah, I know you even though you wrote your obviously of herself,
which came out last year, you and everything else
and you wrote the character and have been a mom and everything else.
But I mean, this is this is your career high now being a character that owns
and runs a car dealership, that must be the thing that you aspired to.
There
she was maybe trying to buy a car in Dublin the last
and once they gave up, they were all like, Oh yeah, really?
Here's Amanda.
You're going to kill me, but I'll give you a little girl's.
Like,
You get that reaction now because obviously it's Adam in
Ireland, doesn't it, in terms of like,
oh, it's there's in Ireland and I can hardly know it now.
What am I think?
I think I didn't expect to be like.
It's weird.
It's weird things to kind of I suppose nobody is quite business
savvy and good at like screwing over the system a little bit.
Like, I have to do a lot of research
to understand myself what and but it was great to play somebody
that kind of runs things like she's one of the things in the background,
but nobody really counts.
That was a real nobody values that in this family.
They don't really value that.
They're like, Amanda's in the background. She just claims the money.
But like anyone, anyone could really do that.
But actually it takes a lot of work like and a lot of clever thinking.
So I think she's kind of undervalued at the start and maybe,
maybe she has a bit of us.
That's why that was actually my next question about that.
You see her at the beginning and you think she's the wife, she's a mom,
you know, and all this stuff going on as she's trying to keep the kids from it.
Well, actually,
there's a lot more to it than maybe meets the eye, at least in the first couple,
which I like because when you watch series like this, it's nice to unpick it
like an onion.
You know, the layers come out as you as you go through the episode
and by the end, you're kind of like, crikey, she's going from here to there.
Yeah, it must be quite a joke.
You don't notice that as it goes along.
Yeah, like gradual and like a slow burn.
And I just compared the first episode to the last, like, oh,
that's a lot like and what she.
Yeah, I think that's.
Sorry, what's the question? I've got no see, I've lost a
lot. No, I think it was just doing her trajectory.
Yeah. Is a massive thing like.
And that was part of the attraction. Definitely.
And I hope it goes further.
To be honest, I've been praying, praying to the gods
that we are definitely fingers crossed.
Yeah, I know.
Say, you know what it's like to be Charlie now, given that he's Daredevil
to a lot of people and people of, you know, people are keen to recognize him
anywhere he goes for playing this one character.
Yeah, a lot of people recognize Charlie, but like, he, he handles it really well.
I learned enough from being around him when he was recognized and like
and Aidan Gillen, and like, I don't know, in
Ireland or you get recognized scenarios, though.
It's just like you are one.
Or can you point to you and just say the word can
or they say things like, you're the actor.
You go, Yeah,
they keep
themselves no autographs like,
but that's actually strange you going off course.
But it reminds you of a very funny story
about Will Ferrell, where he went to a soccer game for his kids and then
he had to grow mustache for Anchorman two and someone asked him, Are you the actor?
And he said, I think so. And he said, Is that is that mustache fake?
And he's like, Why would I be wearing a fake mustache to hide myself?
So I'm like, Yeah, yeah.
The sons are really embarrassed because their dads, Will Ferrell,
what's funny about the cast?
I mean, you've got Charlie, you've got Ciarán [Hinds], who I see everyday now
because the posters of Belfast are literally everywhere.
And obviously Aidan from Game of Thrones and lot of stuff that he's done.
So it must be great to go into an ensemble like this,
but all the rest of them as well, because everybody has their moments,
everybody's characters is kind of no one's trying to get the limelight.
Everyone knows the kind of story and all.
You know how the characters are kind of going to evolve
and work together and play off of each other.
It must be great to be in an ensemble that's so strong like this one.
Has it felt a bit like when
you were a part of the theater company or like a real ensemble?
You know, like I didn't like I don't know.
It just didn't feel like there was anyone that was like, Oh, that's the lead.
Like, it was just like, we are this family.
This is like ensemble feeling and I think we all
very much felt bonded by actually doing
well.
I don't give away things to the audience, and there was just some big family events
that we all had acting together, and it took a lot of work for those cameramen.
Like, there's a lot to cover, there's a lot of coverage,
and we all have to do things many times over.
Well, we all had to give each other energy then, and there's a lot of
like when you weren't on camera, you were there 100% for the other actor.
And I think we just had a rule that you were always like,
you always gave 100% field person or you did what was required for the shot.
But obviously sometimes you'd be very close to commerce.
You'd have to speak a bit quieter we'd be speaking
with the same intensity to get that with their actor everything they need.
And like, like Aidan Gillen has like stuff where he's just gone
mad at me like, and I had to stand there and take it like 25 times
when I was always there, like given a loads back, like, you know,
he was brilliant to me.
Like he completely just gave 1% when I was then when it was on me, you know, like
I think we were all very mindful of that and that was, that was cool.
Yeah.
What was it like for you Irish people in the cast with Charlie's accent?
Because he, he does it.
He does an American accent really well and he does an Irish accent really well.
So I can imagine there's a thing in your brain that would tell you
if it was bad, but he seems to pull it off really, really well.
And, you know, it's a the luxury goods it's like it's pretty godlike.
And he got nervous about just joints, definitely nasty things.
But he'd be like
he'd just be
honest, you know, on and he was he I wouldn't like Charlie
isn't a method actor, but he kept in the accent the whole time.
He is on test.
He just got his muscles into it.
And I think that's just what his method and what he does
and I think is a really good idea because there's like if I was doing
an American accent on a thing I probably do the same.
But especially if you're then doing a particular American,
you know, like Minnesota or something like that, like you have to
I mean, you have to really, really go for it.
So and I think you did really go to this.
I think he got scared sometimes that he was going to the wrong place in Ireland.
I don't know, like I think he was too hard on himself
because he had such subtlety in the accent that it's very hard to get.
I've never seen anyone from England get the Irish accent.
Raiders yeah. It's very it is very, very good.
I was obviously I know him from because he's a Brit and you know, it's true.
I think he's from North London like I am.
But straight away you're kind of like, oh, okay, this is Charlie.
Very, very good.
Very good.
And you've you've seemingly had very good success so far.
Obviously, it's coming to the UK very soon, though.
He's been in Australia as well, or is about to come out in Australia as well.
So it's kind of all over. They're all over the globe.
So he talks about it already.
So are you, are you all keen to maybe go back as I haven't got to the end that
but do you think that's
kind of unfinished business that would hopefully lead into a, into a Season two?
Yeah, yeah. To
that simple
place. So I am really excited.
It's available somewhere in the UK to watch because like I,
I was like me and Anne-Marie talking about the ads and its own route.
I got to really help because the UK,
we didn't know until just quit last minute and it was like, Oh, that's great.
Like this has gotten shown to our next door neighbors, which is really good.
Yeah, excellent. Excellent.
And for you, obviously, you got your Berlin Shooting Stars.
Have you got anything else in the pipeline that you able to?
I'm just normally when all this is questions, people are like, I can't.
So I'm kind of just writing and I've just taped
for a couple of things waiting to hear back on the usual thing for actors.
You know, we're always taken for things doing bits, bobs, but I'm writers,
they're just hip way and develop stuff in the background.
And then hopefully in two years
that might have something, you know, fingers crossed, fingers crossed.
I mean herself, which you had a bit of a
you were obviously part of your film was first come out during the pandemic.
So you, like many others, had a bit of the kind of strange release
and you got out and it was an independent film anyway.
But you must be delighted.
The people have gone into the cinema to say,
but have seemingly embraced it quite, quite well
because from what I've seen, people have nothing but praise for it so far.
Think so much.
Yeah, it went online and is available to stream as since I think 17th there.
So I haven't checked what the response has been reading it, but
I don't even know how to do that.
But I just know that like there was a lot of questions about
when is it going to be online?
Because when it released in the cinema, it was kind of September, October.
It was probably when
it was still a limited capacity or people were a bit nervous.
But we did wait on the cinema considering in Ireland anyway.
I'm not sure about the I'm not
I can't remember the thing for UK, but it just got really nice response.
And it's probably just because
the story happened to hit on things like redemption and kind of community
and what it means to be a neighbor and be aware
what's going on in people's houses, even if they're afraid to tell you
for who anyone,
any one who's not seen, it's
basically herself has met
a woman who needs to find a partner but then goes on to build a house for herself
and the new community forms around her.
And I just think there's a new resonance with our need
for each other and our presence in each other's lives physically.
After pandemic.
And I kind of love the fact that herself sometimes just hit on some notes.
They're a bit more harshly than we expected, like in a good way.
And the think perhaps that I.
Yeah, yeah.
Well, from what I heard, it did go down very in a limited capacity.
And we don't say we would be able to tell that it went down
in the picture houses that obviously, you know, they're quite big and in London
seem to go down very nice.
That's good. So that's good.
So look forward to what you do next. That's exciting.
Thank Scott.
Thank you so much for your time. Yeah, good luck with the show.
And yeah, good luck in in Berlin.
I hear it's lovely.