Love/Hate star Peter Coonan has admitted auditioning for TV and film roles abroad has been “soul destroying”.
The actor is already well known for his role as Fran in the award-winning RTE drama, but Peter admitted it’s difficult getting roles outside of Ireland.
“Certainly in Ireland I have a choice but outside of Ireland, for the moment, it’s kind of putting yourself on tape, waiting to hear back,” he explained.
Fran the man: Peter is known for his role in Love/Hate
“Which can be tough, kind of soul-destroying at times. You learn it well, you go in and shoot it with a friend and then you’re waiting, and you don’t hear anything.”
But Peter admitted he likes going for roles outside of Ireland, because directors haven’t seen him in Love/Hate.
“It’s good as well, they don’t know anything you’ve done, you’re a blank canvas to them,” he told the Sunday Independent.
Unknown: Peter likes being a ‘blank canvas’ to directors abroad
Meanwhile the Dublin star  revealed he used to have an office job in computer firm Microsoft, and he absolutely hated it.
“(I was) in Microsoft, for three weeks. To be honest with you it was pretty grim,” he said.
“Sitting at a computer, I didn’t really know what I was doing. I did a good interview, but all the stuff I said I could do, I couldn’t do,” he said.
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Peter, who recently starred as Brendan Behan in Borstal Boy at The Gaiety Theatre, is coming back to the stage with John B Keane’s The Field.
“I’ve only done four plays in Ireland, I want to do more and more, The Gate and The Abbey. It would be ideal to be able to go away more, do film and television, do a bit of theatre, come back.”
