Barry Keoghan is dressed for battle in Apple TV’s upcoming war drama MASTERS OF AIR. Starring as Lieutenant Curtis Biddick, Barry stars alongside ELVIS star Austin Butler, FANTASTIC BEASTS’ actor Callum Turner and SEX EDUCATION and BARBIE star Ncuti Gatwa. The nine-episode limited series is set during World War II and is a sequel to HBO’s BAND OF BROTHERS, which first aired in 2001.
A brand new Netflix series stars one of our very own Irish talents, Niamh McCormack. EVERYTHING NOW is a show that follows teenage girl Mia as she returns to school following a lengthy rehabilitation stint for an eating disorder. Alongside a star-studded cast – including Stephen Fry and TALK TO ME’s Sophie Wilde – Niamh will play the character of Alison, who is a bold, funny and brutally honest teenager.
BAD SISTERS star, Eve Hewson’s latest film, FLORA AND SON, is now available for streaming on Apple TV. Single mum Flora (Eve Hewson) is at a loss about what to do with her rebellious teenage son, Max (Orén Kinlan). Encouraged by the police to find Max a hobby, Flora tries to occupy him with a beat-up acoustic guitar. With the help of a washed-up LA musician (Joseph Gordon-Levitt), Flora and Max discover the transformative power of music.
In a new Esquire magazine interview, Oscar-winning Irish actor, Barry Keoghan, discusses how he joined the DC Extended Universe. using a make-shift audition tape of himself, Keoghan successfully caught the attention of BATMAN director Matthew Reeves, who offered him a role in the film. Not as the Riddler, though—that was scooped by Paul Dano. Instead, Reeves tapped Keoghan as the Joker.
DERRY GIRLS actress Louisa Harland is set to star in Northern Irish playwright David Ireland’s production of ULSTER AMERICAN on the London stage. The satirical dark comedy will see Dublin-born performer Harland play Northern Irish playwright Ruth Davenport, opposite THE LORD OF THE RINGS actor Andy Serkis as English director Leigh Carver, and THREE BILLBOARDS OUTSIDE EBBING, MISSOURI star Woody Harrelson playing Oscar-winning actor Jay Conway.
In Irish thriller, BARBER, Aidan Gillen takes on the role of Val Barber, a P.I. who is tasked with finding a missing girl. While battling his own inner demons and repairing the relationship with his family, the case of the missing girl becomes far darker than Barber could have possibly imagined. The detective soon finds himself entangled with powerful men of shady morals, who are all determined to thwart his investigation.
After providing the raw fodder for Charlie Kaufman’s characteristically cryptic I’M THINKING OF ENDING THINGS, Canadian novelist Iain Reid serves up more brain-bender material in Garth Davis’ FOE. Anchored by emotionally raw performances from Saoirse Ronan and Paul Mescal, with Aaron Pierre as a stranger bringing equal parts seductive charm and understated menace, this brooding psychological sci-fi about a dying planet and a floundering marriage.
Dublin-born actor, Sir Michael Gambon, of HARRY POTTER fame, has died at the age of 82. Gambon was known for his extensive catalog of work across TV, film and radio, with another of his biggest roles as the psoriasis-ridden sleuth in the 1980s hit series THE SINGING DETECTIVE. He grew up in an Irish immigrant community in Camden and his first job was as an apprentice toolmaker.