Daryl McCormack: 'We had a lot of giggles, but not about the sex stuff'

After Fair City and Peaky Blinders, Tipperary actor Daryl McCormack looks to have found his breakthrough role alongside Emma Thompson as a sex worker in Good Luck to You Leo Grande, writes Esther McCarthy 

Emma Thompson and Daryl McCormack in Good Luck to you, Leo Grande.

Emma Thompson is a woman in search of sexual adventures in her new movie - and a Munster actor plays the man tasked with helping her find her mojo. Daryl McCormack is Leo Grande, the sex worker hired to help widowed schoolteacher Nancy (Thompson) experience the heights of passion for the first time.

It’s the kind of subject matter that could draw nervous giggles from any actor - but Good Luck to You, Leo Grande’s great strength is its lead actors know they have a bigger story to tell.