Aiden Gillen felt pressure to find balance between glamour and grim reality of crime life in Kin

'There's always a responsibility not to glorify it but you can't not show the attractive side of it'

Aiden Gillen in Kin. The actor says audiences have always wanted 'bloodsoaked' drama

Actor Aiden Gillen says there’s a fine line between glorifying violence and showing its gritty reality and he feels new crime drama Kin balances it perfectly.

Kin follows the lives of a fictional Dublin family embroiled in a gangland war and was filmed in Dublin. Gillen is joined in the cast by a range of Irish actors, including Clare Dunne, Ciarán Hinds, Sam Keeley, Emmett Scanlan, Maria Doyle Kennedy, and newcomer Yasmin Seky.