Jacksepticeye: Irish YouTube megastar loves his cameo in new Disney blockbuster

Jacksepticeye, aka Irish YouTuber Seán McLoughlin, was thrilled to be offered a role in Free Guy. Picture: Jerod Harris/Getty Images
When popular Irish YouTuber Seán McLoughlin – better known to his millions of fans as Jacksepticeye – received an email purporting to be from a Hollywood studio, he assumed it was a wheeze.
Included in the message was the phone number of Shawn Levy, director of the Night at the Museum franchise and producer of Stranger Things. So McLoughlin called.