Aidan Gillen has revealed he was convinced to play Charlie Haughey – when he saw his son.
The Dublin actor played the lead in the controversial RTE series Charlie and admitted a chance sighting made him sign on to the show.
Speaking to Marian Finucane on RTÉ Radio One, the Love/Hate star said:
“I wouldn’t have thought I was on anyone’s list to play Charles Haughey, and I wasn’t. But I got on it.”
“I also thought, it’s going to be so easy to fail at this and should I let this cup pass before me? But it was too intriguing not to take the chance even I did completely mess it up.
“I used to live in Kerry and I was on Coumeenole beach looking over at the islands, the Blaskets. I was looking at his island, his family’s island, thinking about should I be taking this onÂ….
“I looked down the beach and I saw Seán HaugheyÂ… looking out, and I thought, okay, that’s interesting. I took it as a sign.”
