John Connors, who plays pipe-bomb maker Patrick on Love/Hate, blew audiences away with his performance in last Sunday's episode of the crime series, and he is delighted with the response so far.
The gripping fourth episode of the show, which many have touted as the best ever, saw Nidge take out a hit on Patrick. However, the hired gun Packy misses Patrick and accidentally shoots his son Brandon.
Patrick takes Packy prisoner and takes his revenge by slitting his throat, but not before delivering a chilling speech explaining the thought process behind his actions.
Connors said today of the reaction: "People are reaching out and saying it was great, it was so real and that kind of stuff, so that's nice. It made their Sunday night, so if you can make someone's Sunday night you're doing a job for them."
When asked if it freaked him out having to act out killing Packy, he replied: "It didn't freak me out, I thought it was the right thing to be done. The character had just lost a son and in the travelling community your son is like the heir to the throne. And he'd lost his son already and he was still grieving from that son and then to almost lose a son again, I don't think he was ever going to let him away with that. But, he's not a sociopath, he has a conscience.
"And taking a man's life is a big deal to him, so in that scene you see him thinking out loud and he's explaining to the other character Packy that this is why I'm going to kill you. So that's why he doesn't just blow his head off. And that's why I loved the scene, me and Stuart [Carolan] talked about it, they did it in such a real way, to make it a big deal to take someone off this earth instead of doing it coolly and putting a bullet in someone's head. To show how dark that is, to show how dark murder is."
Connors also praised the show's depiction of traveller culture, saying: "They nailed the traveller culture. There's a lot more going on than the Nidge thing, I think the last episode showed that - the situation with his son, the identity problem his son was having. I have a lot of little cousins who are half traveller, half settled and the kid who plays my son, he's my cousin and he's half traveller half settled and he has the same thing going on.
"And it's that identity thing, being made uncomfortable about being a traveller, or you're supposed to be ashamed to be a traveller. To me that's a tragedy that any kid would have to go through that, that they would have to hide their identity or change who they are. To me that really hit home, that scene, that storyline really hit home."
The actor now receives a lot more attention on the street as a result of his high-profile role.
He opened up about dealing with the fan attention, saying: "I went to a UB40 gig, and I didn't know what I was letting myself in for to be honest. When I think about it now I was pretty naïve. But I walked down the side of the Olympia, the fella took me ticket and he just looked at me [and said] "You should have worn a hat". I'd say there was four or five hundred people between me and the door, which was about 20 feet away, and it took me over an hour to get there. It's like a chain reaction, when you take one selfie, someone goes "Who's yer man taking the selfie, ah it's yer man!", and everyone's drunk so they have no self consciousness, they don't care they'll approach you, and hug you and pull your hair and the shirt was even pulled off me.
"So I thought it had ended when I got inside, and they ended up putting me in the VIP area, which is one little nice thing about being recognised, I thought. They put in me there because they thought it'd be quieter and I literally took a selfie with everyone in the VIP area. And I was trying to enjoy UB40 who were great, but I didn't get the full experience. It was a lesson well learned, I walk around with a hat now."
Connors is currently working on his next project, a feature film he has written and will star in.
He said of the project: "I'm working on something that I wrote already called Cardboard Gangsters and we nearly have all the funding, so we're going to be shooting that next summer. So that's really what I'm concentrating on.
"It's about a gang of young men who are sick of being on the dole and having no money and fascinated by gangster life and gangsterism. The only people they respect are gangsters, they have all the money and all the respect of the community , they have the power. So they get into drugs for those reasons, the glorified lifestyle, and they find themselves clashing with the main kingpin of the area. It's not done in a Love/Hate kind of way, it's smaller, set in a council estate, at street level. A social realist kind of look at it.
"I'm in it, that's the great thing about writing your own stuff, and I'm the lead! Barry Keoghan who played Wayne the cat killer last year is cast in it, Stephen Clinch who plays Noelie Hughes this season, he's cast in it, and Damien Dempsey."
Tune in to see what's in store for Patrick in the next episode of Love/Hate on Sunday November 2 at 9.30pm on RTÉ One.
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