Aidan Gillen has revealed his mother orchestrated the casting for his new move You’re Ugly Too.
Aidan’s mother told the director of Martin Noonan that she wanted her son to play more “humorous” characters.
“Coming out of a movie premiere that Aidan made called Trickle Junior and I bumped into his mother and we where talking about how much we enjoyed Aidan’s performance in that movie – it was quite humorous,” Martin said.
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“His mother said ‘I really wish he did more roles like that with more humour and where he’s not the bad guy’.
“So I decided to write something with a little bit of humour and a little bit of drama set in the midlands to really entice him so he couldn’t say no then,” he told the Anton Savage Show.
While the script was written specifically with Aidan in mind, the Game of Thrones star admitted he didn’t feel pressure to act in it.
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“Not if you don’t know that, and especially not if you didn’t know it was your mother who was the person who orchestrated it,” he laughed.
The Wire actor admitted he didn’t know the script was written for him until after filming.
“I suppose I thought this was a good fit, and retrospectively I can see he’s tapping into this or that,” he revealed.
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“What were doing in the film certainly has traits, but I’m not the melancholic.”
Aidan also spoke about his successful acting career to date as well as the ups and downs that come with the job.
“Not everything turns out as great as you want it to be and that’s fine I think its important to make an effort,” he said.
