Disappearing Act: A Multitude of Other Stories: A Host of Other Characters in 16 Short Stories

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Disappearing Act: A Multitude of Other Stories: A Host of Other Characters in 16 Short Stories

Disappearing Act: A Multitude of Other Stories: A Host of Other Characters in 16 Short Stories

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When I interviewed Sheehan several years ago, after he had been working on the film Season of the Witch, he said he didn't want the same level of fame as his co-star Nicholas Cage. He laughs when I remind him of that now. The results were dramatic. He saw “generational patterns” in his own behaviour and moods and, at times, things got quite trippy.

Were his family otherwise creative? "We did a lot of music when we were kids," he says. "We used to go to the Fleadh Cheoils. I went to France at the age of 10 with a band of musicians and the mayor of Portlaoise and the deputy mayor and mum, to do a town twinning thing. And dad [a garda] has a pretty extensive library. It's pretty impressive the amount of books that he's read . . . He was always singing songs and quoting bits and poems, so he was very influential in that way. And he has a great computer head for excerpts of things." The accumulation of things like that, where essentially your presence is omitted, you are left out. For no good real reason. That would sting. There is a big effort towards inclusion, equality and diversity across casting and hiring. I saw on social media that Netflix posted, I'm paraphrasing, 'To be silent about this is to be complicit' and I think that's right."I’m stood in the car park, unsure whether I should get in my car and drive up to the graveyard, or get in my car and drive home, or wait until she comes out and fall at her feet, like Mary Magdalene at Jesus’s feet but in reverse, and beg for forgiveness. Not that he’s wanting for big roles. Over the last decade, he’s built up an impressive body of work, with starring turns in With a number of nominations under his belt, Robert Sheehan has made a name for himself as one of the hottest stars from Ireland today. Where is Robert Sheehan from?

Well … if I’m being totally honest, not all of me made the promise. I made it, but not all of me made it. The bit of me that makes all the right decisions, that fella made it. You know this, God. You know the fella who at the end of the night when someone says, ‘We’ll walk up the road to Doheny’s, sure they’re open till half two,’ and the other fella is telling you, ‘Go, go, go on, there’ll be craic!’ That fella who’s in the front seat is shouting, being barely heard, ‘You’ve been up to Doheny’s a thou- sand times and it’s always the exact same craic – don’t bother.’ But the booze tends to quieten him down no matter how high-pitched he screams. The booze puts him on mute. But he’s the fella I should be listening to, because he’s looking out for not only you and me but everyone else around as well. He’s got everyone covered. Unusually for an actor, he didn’t go to drama school. He dropped out of college in Galway, where he studied film and television. It was, he recalls, a city where there was “plenty of opportunity” to meet girls. Not that, as time went on, it was always only girls. Even in the early years of his career, there was, behind the youthful confidence, a gravitation toward self-help and spirituality. Where it correlates for me is in researching a character,” he says. “Even last night there was a film that hopefully we’re going to try and pull together for f**k-all money before the end of the year. And I had a long chat with the director on the phone last night and I found myself for a good two, three hours being [the character] in my living room and looking at all the objects and working out what they would feel about all this stuff. You start to learn things when you take a character and bump them up against things in the external world. And that’s what the writing is.”Through the noughties, his star continued on its ascent. He was BAFTA-nominated for his performance in Misfits, about teens with superpowers on community service, and won warm praise for his performance in The Accused, playing a mentally disturbed teen who was convinced his stepmother was poisoning him. His growing stature as an actor combined with his arresting appearance — large expressive eyes and a crown of dark curls — made him popular with casting directors and fans. At times, this has been a bit of a double-edged sword and, quite frequently, he gets pestered for selfies (“What do they even do with them all?”). The promotion of the book promised humour, which I failed to see. Instead it's filled with constant dark, morbid thoughts - something I enjoy reading, so I'm not complaining. Writing and meditating have definitely helped my growth as a person, and that’s more important than anything material that comes my way. Being able to sit with a feeling and just observe it? That’s free, and it’s like a superpower. Everybody should do it.”

Shrieks and cries and screams ring out and echo through the church now like hysterical prayer. I can’t move in the pew. I’m frozen to the spot. I look up and Sinéad’s crystal eyes are ablaze and burning a hole in mine. She points and screeches, ‘He tripped him! I saw him! Liam?!’Robert Sheehan was born in Portlaoise in Co Laois in 1988. He discovered his love for acting when he starred as Oliver Twist in a primary school production. He decided to study film and television at Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology but failed his first-year exams after he missed months of the course to film Summer of the Flying Saucer. Robert Sheehan's career When she’s not cutting hair, she’s always raising money for charity and organising things to happen on a weekend on the green. She’d go around with far less airs and graces than she’s due. You know, I was only thinking earlier on that as you get older the outside world shrinks and shrinks. And things right in front of you get kind of big. Unsurprisingly then, his favourite role so far has been a theatrical one – Richard III in Trevor Nunn's Wars of the Roses. "Four Shakespeare plays turned into three Shakespeare plays with about 1,000 couplets written by John Barton and Peter Hall to fill in the gaps. So truthfully, I couldn't tell you which bits in my soliloquies were John and Peter and which bits were Bill. I worked really, really, really hard on it mostly out of fear of being laughed at. You have the likes of Mark Rylance and Ralph Fiennes, actors of an incredibly high calibre, doing Richard III and in comes Rob, the Irish whippersnapper. And the truth is I was f**king good . . . I was absolutely terrified. And I learned to negotiate with fear, in a way that put me streets beyond having any kind of fear on a TV or film set . . . I was good at it because I refused to pontificate with the language. I just tried to make it chat, tried to make it f**king banter, to instinctively bring those comedic comedy beats to it." The results are the type of witty colourful writing that would have gotten published, even without Sheehan’s star caché. It might be easy to be cynical about an actor turning his hand to fiction — the critical mauling Sean Penn received a couple of years ago for his novel lingers in the memory — but the Portlaoise-born actor has a rare imaginative talent and has already won fulsome praise from



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