![]() ![]() I thought about it for a millisecond and said, ‘absolutely, where do I sign?’”īallycastle, County Antrim, where Hill grew up, is about as far from West Cork as it is possible to be while still on the island of Ireland. I got a phone call from my agent saying, ‘you’ve been offered this - and Kathy Burke’s directing’. I remember at the time commenting on that. ![]() ![]() A real, flawed, ordinary man in an extraordinary situation. I remember thinking, 'oh, that's an amazing part'. “I read the novel when it first came out. Eccentric Garda PJ Collins is a cross between Benny Hill and Kate Winslet in Mare of Easttown: an outwardly wacky figure whose absurd exterior conceals an undertow of seriousness, even sadness. Yet it is Hill who holds it together, playing a character who could not be more different from Game Of Thrones’ shrewd, manipulative Varys. Holding is nonetheless great fun and a showcase for a cast that also includes Brendan Fricker, Cork’s Siobhán McSweeney (from Derry Girls), Peaky Blinders’ Charlene McKenna and theatre actor Olwen Fouéré.Ĭlinton Liberty and Conleth Hill in Holding. The Cork accents are, it has to be said, occasionally wonky (imagine a Dublin standup comedian 'doing' a Cork accent and then multiply by five). ![]() The idyll in this case Duneen, a fictional West Cork town that feels like an amalgam of Schull, Drimoleague (where it was filmed) and Norton’s native Bandon. And when human remains turn up unexpectedly on abandoned land, years of closely guarded secrets begin to unravel. Here is a whodunit set in one of those quaint rural idylls where secrets lurk everywhere and nobody is as they appear. Yet for all that praise Holding doesn't quite reinvent the wheel. The Guardian hailed its “charm” the London Times praised the “well drawn” characters. Holding comes to Virgin Media One after debuting on ITV to positive reviews. And for the Co Antrim-raised actor that next chapter has involved crossing the length of Ireland to star in an adaptation of Graham Norton’s 2016 small-town murder mystery, Holding. But of course the world keeps spinning even after you’ve appeared in the biggest TV smashes of all time. ![]()
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