A rising actor admits foreign casting agents are taken aback when they discover that he's black and Irish.
“I can’t say enough nicer words about that man, he is so lovely and so open and so receptive. I remember thinking to myself ‘this is the type of acting I want to do and that guy is going to be a star’. The people are so so lovely,” he beams. The world soon caught on to his stardom and his skill as an actor.” Obviously, you want to play English and American’s, but the main characters I pursued and am still pursuing is playing Irish born and bred characters, and I’ve been blessed with the opportunity to do that in Normal People and now Holding. "I remember watching him in a play called Mojo and I was blown away.