Lorcan’s a cracker

DUBLIN-BORN actor Lorcan Cranitch still gets recognised on the street for his role in Cracker — he played troubled DS Jimmy Beck in the British crime drama.

“There are worse things to be remembered for,” says Lorcan, who’s currently performing in Tom Murphy’s The House, which is at the Abbey Theatre until July 14. “I play Kerrigan, a solicitor, who has pulled himself up by his bootstraps. He’d like to think he has a strong moral backbone but the great thing about this story is that this sort of resolve is tested. He’s put into a completely uncompromising situation and finds he’s not the iron man he thought he was.

“It’s a great role to do, but every character in this play could be the hero of their own story.”