Five 'Late Late Show' talking points, including a lot of love for Marian Keyes
Marian Keyes and Stefanie Preissner with Patrick Kielty
Four members of joined the show to share some insight into life in the castle and their predictions for who may win next week’s final.
Cork contestant Christine described how much she enjoyed her own ‘funeral’ on the show.
“I loved it. Oh my God,” she said.
“The only person that stood out the most that day, besides Siobhán [McSweeney], was our lovely ‘Daddy’ in the castle with the ‘thanks for coming, thanks for coming’. It was lovely.”
Speaking of ‘Daddy’, father and son due Paudie and Andrew spoke about their experience, with Paudie dropping a bombshell: “I am very much out there, a hugger.”
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The contestants gave their opinions on who may be crowned the winner on Tuesday, with Katelyn tipping “Oracle Oyin”, Christine hedging her bets with “I’m Team Girls, all the girls”, Andrew saying Oyin and Paudie playing it safe: “any one of them could win it, to be honest, and it's just very hard to call.”
Comedian Aisling Bea spoke to Patrick Kielty about returning to comedy after having a baby, her work on the adaptation of "Queen of Ireland" Marian Keyes’ , and her work to promote sustainability in fashion.
“Marian Keyes is finally getting all of the treatment she deserves, the Hollywood treatment,” Bea said. “She's got coming out, and was actually the first book I read during the pandemic.
“Marian's finally getting all of these stories brought to life on screen, and I think people are gonna love it.”
Bea, who was wearing an entirely thrifted outfit, was also passionate about choosing secondhand when shopping, including for her baby.
“I know it's so nice to buy new for babies, and they're exciting and but it does feel innately wasteful,” she said.
“It's about us shifting away from fast fashion and trying to get back to wearing the clothes what we already have, and leaning into secondhand and not having a stigma.”
star Anthony Boyle spoke about his role in the upcoming Netflix drama.
“To play Arthur Guinness felt like a real bucket list thing to do. I was very pleased to be part of it,” he said.
On the last day of filming for the show, Boyle said he organised a surprise for the crew, but it backfired slightly.
“On the last day, a lot of actors get ice cream trucks or coffee trucks, and I got a Guinness truck to come to set. It came a couple of hours early, it was meant to come like six when we wrapped — it came at lunch.
“So there's a few scenes in the show that the cameras are all over the place because some of the boys were absolutely steaming. The producers were raging.”
After filming a few years ago, Boyle said he and costar Barry Keoghan found themselves in the White House, leaving a not-so-great impression on Joe Biden’s security team.
“We went, had the crack and got up o some mischief, had some fun. We ended up doing cartwheels in the White House.
“They weren't too happy with it. We got a call, and they said, ‘the White House have called and they're not very happy with you’. We had to take [the video clip] down.”
Author Marian Keyes and actor Stefanie Preissner joined to discuss their work on , an overarching adaptation of a number of Keyes’ novels following the titular family.
The novels are beloved by Irish readers and the pair said they felt “incredible pressure” when casting — particularly when choosing ‘the ridiest man in Ireland’.
“I was completely chill about the whole casting process, like everyone that you mentioned and cast I was like, ‘She's fabulous. He's ideal.’ But when it came to Luke Costello, I was besieged with people like ‘No, he's got to look like this and he's got to be like that person’,” Keyes said.
“I had to go to Dixie and the rest of the producers, and say, regarding the casting of Luke, do whatever you like with any of the others, but on this one and this one alone, do not fuck this up.”
Preissner added: “Marian's fans are ardent, staunch people. Her fans are very, very intense. And so I felt the pressure very, very strongly.”
Keyes was inspired by her own experience of alcohol addiction when writing the character of Rachel and she said she felt strange seeing her brought to life on screen.
“It made me very sad in a way that I had never experienced before, just how awful it is to have to do that to yourself and to the people who love you,” Keyes said.
“I just I experienced it in a completely new way. And I just think [Preissner] did such a great job of showing kind of how ordinary addiction is, that it doesn't just happen to the people in the margins, and it doesn't respect education or anything, and that crossing the line is such a small thing.
“I think the more people know that it can happen to anyone, the easier it is for people to say, ‘Oh, Christ, I might actually have a problem’. Or for family members to say, ‘actually, we might be the family that has an addict’.”
“If Harvey had timely access to childcare, he wouldn’t have missed so much of his childhood”
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The parents of the late Harvey Morrison spoke about their campaign for healthcare reform since his death in July.
Harvey was just nine years old when he passed away and Gillian Sherratt and Stephen Morrison are now calling for systemic changes to ensure timely and adequate care for disabled children. Three weeks ago over 1,000 people marched through Dublin in support of their cause and they spoke on the show about why thy are campaigning.
“His death feels incredibly unjust. Knowing now that he was only going to live to to nine, knowing that he spent the guts of three years in pain on a wait list, feels incredibly unjust,” Sherratt said.
“If Harvey had had the timely access to healthcare, I feel like he wouldn't have missed so much of his childhood, and we would have more memories as a family, more happy memories as a family, and not so many negative memories. I just feel like it robbed him of a large portion of his childhood and I think that's incredibly unfair.
“Harvey's not an isolated case. We see this up and down the country, unfortunately, where these children are being, for want of a better word, they're being neglected. They're not getting the care they need in the time that they need, and these children are sitting on a wait list to the point that they can become inoperable.
“I've seen children die. We've seen children end up with massive cardiac problems from this. Having lost Harvey, we don't want any other families to go through what we've gone through.”
Morrison added: “There's been support from across the political spectrum, no matter if it's left, right, centrist, but I think now is a very particular moment in time where we all have to come together and try get this sorted.
“It’s not the Ireland that I grew up in. We don't treat people like this. We don't treat children like this.”
