Moe Dunford on Nightride: 'Drive the car, don’t crash, say the lines'

The Waterford actor has followed his role in Texas Chainsaw Massacre with a Belfast-set thriller that is about to debut on Netflix 
Moe Dunford on Nightride: 'Drive the car, don’t crash, say the lines'

Moe Dunford in a scene from Nightride on Netflix. 

Moe Dunford is looking relaxed and lightly tanned as he Zooms from his holiday, the sunny setting making an uplifting change from the usual beige wall or bookshelf background so redolent of the pandemic. The actor, from Dungarvan, Co Waterford, is taking a well-earned break from a busy lockdown period which defied expectations.

“It’s a strange thing. People might think you are not working, because things were so difficult, for everybody. When the pubs reopened there briefly there last Christmas, a bouncer said to me, ‘Jaysus, have you ever thought about changing career, seeing as you’re not acting’. I played dumb and said, ‘yeah, maybe’, but I had never been so busy in a way. I am very grateful for it, it was project to project.”  

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