Yeah totally not because it's you playing him Cillian
The actor, 43, revealed that Tommy would be taking up a seat as an MP, the establishment he formerly fought against, but the reason people love the character so much is that he they can sympathise with him.
He explained: ‘Well there’s that wonderful contradiction or conflict or balance between being a member of parliament, a Labour member of parliament, and then also being the head of a criminal gang – it’s brilliant drama. ‘I think the reason people are attracted to Tommy is because he is very, very charismatic; you don’t agree with what he does, but you desperately try to understand.‘It’s never one or the other, we feel sympathy I hope for him sometimes, we feel anger for him and revulsion, but I’ve never seen him as one or the other, and I wouldn’t transpose my set of morals on to a fictional character like that because then I couldn’t play him.
Cillian also told LADbible that he’s grateful for the chance to play such an iconic character for so long, explaining: ‘It’s an absolute gift, the character.‘I never anticipated having the opportunity to play the character for this length of time and to have the privilege of working on such great material, for people to have so much affection for the show, for it to have such reach, culturally and everything else.
‘I love it. I mean, it’s exhausting, but I would never moan about it because it’s an actor’s dream, really.’
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