- Music
- 19 Mar 15
As his band Hail The Ghost prepare to hit RTÉ’s The Saturday Night Show this weekend, the frontman tells Hot Press that it was another role in Love/Hate that caught his eye
With their debut album Forsaken garnering rave reviews, it’s heady times for Hail The Ghost’s Kieran O’Reilly. He is recognisable to many from his role in Love/Hate – and the media storm that followed. But, as he tells Colm O’Regan in the new issue of Hot Press, he had his eye on another part in the hit show.
“I would have been more interested in the dentist role!” he laughs. “I thought there was something extraordinary about it. I thought the interaction between the dentist, and his world, and the world of gangland crime was so colourful.”
Of course, it was as Detective Ciarán Madden that Kieran became familiar to viewers across the country; he admits that it’s taken a while to fully grasp the enormity of what he was part of.
“My first day on set, I had a fairly big scene. We just hit the ground running, to the extent that there was no time to be intimidated. It didn’t register, because I had nothing by way of a reference point; it wasn’t until afterwards that I thought, ‘Wow, that was massive.’”
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