Sing Street), have only gone from strength to strength in the interim.
“The flip side, as you say, is in the last 12 to 18 months all the cast, they have all done these massive projects,” Macken agreed.
“Ferdia s movie (Coda) was the biggest selling movie in Sundance, Dean s been in an Oscar movie (1917), Anya has been in Queen s Gambit, Finn is on Fast and Furious.”
Having worked with these talented actors, Macken said he wasn’t surprised about the performances they have put in and roles they have attracted since shooting the film.
“You just knew that they were all going to do all these great things. It was just a question of would it be before or after the movie came out,” he said.
Here Are the Young Men is set in Dublin in 2003 and centres on aimless teenager Matthew (Chapman) and his disaffected friends who leave school into a social vacuum of drink, drugs and thrill-seeking in one last summer of adolescence.
Matthew yearns after his free-spirited friend Jen (Taylor-Joy) and struggles to maintain his increasingly disturbing relationship with the sadistic Kearney (Cole), while one of their other friends starts to succumb to paranoia and depression. Signature Entertainment
The group of friends are soon led by Kearney into a world of nihilistic violence, falling into shocking acts of transgression that will change their lives forever.
Irish actor Eoin Macken cast as lead in new US TV drama
Updated / Friday, 5 Mar 2021
11:18
Irish actor Eoin Macken is to play the male lead opposite
Justified s Natalie Zea in US network NBC s new high concept drama series
La Brea.
NCIS: New Orleans,
The Mentalist) tells the story of a family trying to survive after being separated by a massive sinkhole that mysteriously opens in Los Angeles.
US entertainment trade website
Deadline reports that
La Brea was given a straight-to-series order in January. It is Macken s third series for NBCUniversal, having previously starred in
Night Shift and