Hilary Rose: 'I just don't think a nine to five would have suited me'
Hilary Rose: "I was certainly a comedy actor, but my heart has always loved drama." Picture: Miki Barlok
Have you ever seen Irish eyes smiling? I have. Hilary Rose, Cork’s most beloved export, has smiling eyes – beaming at you so enthrallingly you begin to believe the Oirish stereotype. She would dismiss this, of course, such is her desire to commend the brilliance of others rather than herself (“Pauline McGlynn, what an incredibly smart woman,” etc) but the sentiment still stands.
Retrospectively, one might credit it with her love of nature (“I’m usually in bare feet from March to October”) her passion for the arts or her genuine or her choice to forego curtains (“my circadian rhythm thanks me for it”) but as it happens, a Rose with any other name would smell as sweet – such is the regard with which Hilary talks to you.
