Hot Press talked to writer Stuart Carolan, and stars Robert Sheehan, Killian Scott, Peter Coonan and Susan Loughnane back in January about the inspiration behind the gripping plotlines, why it makes such compelling viewing and the show' sometimes terrifying similarities to real life.

“It can get very reverent on set sometimes,” Robert Sheehan revealed. “Because Love/Hate has asked a lot of its actors. The scene that jumps to my mind immediately is from the last series when Aidan Gillen’s character John Boy drags Susan Loughnane’s character Debbie out of the house by the hair, and she pisses herself before he holds her over the balcony screaming at her. Stuff like that, it’s heavy. And we’ve all had really rough scenes. So I think the humdrum and the madness of TV and filmmaking needs to slow down, and become a little bit more reverent to the fact that these people – the actors – are putting themselves so far out there.”

Read the whole interview at [link]http://www.hotpress.com/archive/9472839.html[/link]

Channel 5 airs all four episodes of the first series at 10pm on consecutive Wednesdays from this evening.