I'm always wanting to do the impossible.
I look like a kid onscreen in most movies.
I want to play someone like Billy the Kid.
Dublin's a great place. It really is. It's a great place. And Ireland, especially, is a great place. I've realized that growing up more. I'm loving my country more as I'm getting older.
Boxing isn't a career. Acting is it for me. But they're both very therapeutic.
I have confidence. I don't know where I got it from.
I hope I inspire younger ones. Whatever you're into - sports, whatever - just go and do something.
My nanny took me in at 12 with my brother, who is a year younger than me. We're the closest brothers you'll ever meet.
I wasn't stupid, or very smart. I didn't finish my education.
Where I'm from, you focus on finishing school. Even finishing college is seen as a stretch - you just get a job after school, and that's it.
I think I would've found myself in the arts somewhere along the lines. If you're creative, you find something, eventually.
Every actor wants to show a good and deep range, so you look at all the elements here, and you make a conscious choice of where you want to go as a performer.
I'm trying to keep a good record and do interesting movies with interesting filmmakers.
With this acting and this lifestyle, your privacy does get taken a little.
All my foster homes were very good to me. But it's still not a very nice experience. It's only when you're older, you realise: we were on our own in there. As kids, you don't know what's happening. You're here. Then you're in the next house. But the families were all very good to us.
I do reach out to lads that I know who are my age: people like Charlie Plummer or Timothee Chalamet.
Getting involved with 'Black 47' was like getting involved with 'Dunkirk' for me. I learned a lot. But 'Black 47' was my own history from my own country.
I did Christmas plays at school, but they banned me because I was messing about. And I was like, 'Ah, why?' Because I was getting attention, everyone was laughing at me and I was loving it, I thought, 'This feels good!'
Sometimes a camera comes out and people freeze up a little, and I'm like that with normal cameras, but with a film camera, I feel different.
I don't think you ever really get used to it, do you? There's always another little level of shock in it and of being starstruck at the people you meet. And that's the beauty of it: you're always fascinated, because it's not a normal thing to do, is it, this acting game?
