Actor and comic Chris O’Dowd has described shifting again to London from the US, discovering individuals within the metropolis are “down” after a decade of cutbacks.
The IT Crowd star returned to London from Los Angeles along with his spouse Daybreak O’Porter and their two youngsters a yr in the past.
“People are down, is the impression I’m getting. I don’t know if it’s because of the divisive political culture or whether it’s because people are broke as s**t because they haven’t put any money into public services for so long, and now they’ve said they’re not going to do it either because they’re not going to raise taxes, so I don’t know what they’re going to do. But everybody is… it would be hard to say it’s improved.”
Requested if he sensed any optimism that issues would change for the higher, he replied: “Not yet.”
O’Dowd mentioned the choice to return to the UK “wasn’t because Trump got in or any of that crap”, however that he needed to “get out before the political cycle starts, because it just gets a bit heated”. He added: “It actually didn’t this time, because he won so easily.”
The Irish star was talking forward of the premiere of his new Sky Unique sequence Small City, Massive Story, which involves Sky and NOW on Thursday 27 February.
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Chris O’Dowd and Christina Hendricks in Small City, Massive Story
Set within the fictional Irish border village of Drumban, the dramatic comedy follows Wendy Patterson, portrayed by Mad Males’s Christina Hendricks, an area lady who discovered success as a TV producer in Los Angeles. She returns with a movie crew in tow and is compelled to confront a secret from a long time in the past – guests from outer house.
So does the present’s creator consider in alien existence?
“I find it hard to believe we’re it, we’re just too imperfect,” O’Dowd replied. He hails from Boyle, County Roscommon, which is taken into account a “UFO hotspot” in Eire.
“In the vastness of the universe, or the multiverse or whatever we’re existing within, it seems highly unlikely that you and me are the best we can do, no offence,” he added.
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The forged of Small City, Massive Story
Patterson’s show-within-a-show, titled I Am Celt however described as Lame Of Thrones, seems to satirise Hollywood’s usually inaccurate portrayal of Eire.
“Some of them can be heavy-handed, or a little bit off-piste,” laughs O’Dowd. “I think the thing to remember is we’re guilty of it too.
“Every time I hear Individuals being depicted from Irish individuals, fairly often they’re stuffing themselves with cheeseburgers they usually’re morons. There’s received to be a little bit of give and take with that.”
