Chris O’Dowd has stated he needs the press would focus on Graham Linehan’s views with him extra slightly than sowing “division”.
The actor, who performed Roy Trenneman in sitcom The IT Crowd, which Linehan created, wrote and directed, instructed The Occasions that he wished Linehan was writing extra.
He defined: “I haven’t seen him in a couple of years, I textual content him each every now and then. I’ve individuals come as much as me and inform me that I’ve modified their life due to this present that I used to be actually a small half in. And so I at all times get in contact with him and let him know, ‘I simply need you to understand how a lot fucking love I get in your work.’
He continued: “I want he was writing extra, and I want he was within the business extra. I believe he’s the perfect comedy author I’ve labored with.”
In recent times, Linehan has made headlines along with his anti-transgender views, being a vocal opponent of ideas together with gender self-identification and what he has described as “trans ideology,” resulting in a Father Ted musical being axed in 2022, and whereas O’Dowd stated he didn’t need to “get into” the author’s views, he described it as “a disgrace” that extra individuals don’t communicate to him about them.
“Whether or not I agree with them or not – they’re not peripheral,” he stated. “ I do know the press is making an attempt to make a great deal of cash out of all the division, however don’t truly need to go and speak to him about it and I believe that’s a disgrace.”
O’Dowd, in the meantime, has created and directed the sequence Small City, Huge Story, which is about to premiere on Sky Atlantic on February 27. It’s set within the fictional city of Drumbán in rural Eire, which sees the go to of an enormous Hollywood studio, HWAT Footage, able to movie a TV present, I Am Celt, there – and O’Dowd performs its author. Nonetheless, there are many secrets and techniques and mysteries coming to mild within the city.
In addition to O’Dowd the likes of Christina Hendricks, Paddy Considine, David Rawle, Eileen Walsh and Clarke Peters all star within the sequence.
It’s virtually a full decade since O’Dowd’s sitcom Moone Boy ended, and like Small City, Huge Story, it was set in Eire. O’Dowd defined of his motive for creating the latter: “The intentions have been different, however there was undoubtedly a component of lacking the entire nature of doing Moone Boy … having a bit extra of a stable stance within the artistic course of, I suppose.
“I believe there’s a component whenever you’re a part of a really massive machine that you may really feel such as you’re not stretching the muscular tissues that you simply’re extra acquainted with, let’s say. However it was extra actually, what was occurring on the earth, than me feeling like it is a massive present, I would like smaller.”
