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I want to do Irish roles.
Dolours and her sister Marian were central figures in two car bombings in London in 1973.
Playing a character like Hughes felt viscerally familiar to him, he says.
Unlike most other roles, he didnt have to master a new accent or do intensive historical research.
Hes been to the same pubs Hughes himself frequented.
He arrives late to our morning interview at a restaurant just south of Central Park.
After rocking a mustache inManhunt,Boyle wonders whether his calling card lies above his upper lip.
That wasnt in the script, but thats just how we are with each other.
I was promised 100 quid, and they didnt pay me, Boyle says.
This is a messy, checkered history, Boyle says.
It will work if you just ask questions and connect to the humanity of it.
If you never got a pot to piss in, it helps to be able to laugh.
Boyle grew up in a Catholic family.
She said, Theyre hardly fucking shooting at you.
During wartime, people do awful, horrible things, says Boyle.
I still dont know what I think about it.
I put my heart into it.
On the tapes, she disavows the IRAs methods and direction.
Hughes (Tom Vaughan-Lawlor plays the older version) also participated in the project before his death in 2008.
Boyle is bracing to hear what the crowd back home thinks of the show.
He has secured one endorsement of the series from his own parents.
For me, I was just on a movie set, he says.
For them, they were like, This was our life.
A few weeks before our interview, Boyle showed them the finished version of the series.
It made me feel perversely good, in a way, because wed done it right, Boyle says.
Hopefully the people in West Belfast watching this will connect with it if theyve had similar experiences.
Theyre the audience I give a fuck about.
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