“Like mother’s milk from the tit of Dublin.”
Colin Farrell will grace our TV screens in the lead role of True Detective Season 2 on June 22, but how exactly did the Dubliner get the gig?
The Republic of Telly team, with the help of Angela Scanlon, recreated Farrell’s audition tape with the HBO show’s producers to reveal how he bagged the role.
The sketch is loaded with classic Dublin references and a sing-song erupts at the end, watch it here.
YouTube credit: RTÉ Republic of Comedy.
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