A DUBLIN actress who appeared in Game of Thrones and The Fall has revealed she caught the acting bug from watching Bosco as a child.
Lacy Moore, 39, who will star in season two of Amazon Prime’s Age of the Living Dead, revealed she initially wanted to get into the showbiz industry as a TV presenter after watching the popular children’s show.
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The Dubliner also said despite appearing in some of the biggest shows in the world she hopes to one day make an appearance in Fair City.
The actress from Sutton told The Irish Sun: “I remember when I was like three or four and I was watching Punch and Judy for the first time.
“I must have been about three and I was mad into hand puppets and then I remember watching Bosco at five and going, I really want to be on TV being a presenter.
“Not Bosco in the box, I wanted to be the presenter.
“So I think from a young age, my parents were broadcasters and they work in radio and I’ve obviously gotten a bit of their blood in terms of performance.
‘JUST OBSESSED’
“I was just obsessed with the whole mechanics of acting and the craft of acting from an early age, I just wanted to know how it was done and I’m still fascinated by it today.”
She added: “I’ve always really wanted to work in Fair City, I’m working with Dave Duffy from Fair City and I’m like ‘Dave, I really want to be in Fair City.’
“A lot of the casting directors here think I’m from the north of Ireland or think I’m American and don’t know I’m from Dublin.
“I’d love to be in Fair City. I’d like to be a bit of a troublemaker in it.”
‘NEW WALKING DEAD’
Lacy plays Defence Minister Matilda Donahue, who is an all of the UK Prime Minister in Age of the Living Dead.
The show has been described as “the new Walking Dead” with the show centred around a vampire virus which has caused America to be quarantined by the rest of the world, in the hopes of containing it.
Lacy revealed the show was filmed during the midst of the pandemic and said they didn’t need to go far for “inspiration.”
She said: “When filming wrapped it was like life was imitating the show I’d just filmed.”
PIRATE RADIO
Lacy, whose parents Debbie and Donald ran pirate station Radio Dublin, said she was always surrounded by “characters” growing up but it was a move at 18 to San Francisco which really shaped her into the person that she is today.
She continued: “It was so freeing to come from Dublin in the 90s and I just always felt restricted here, I don’t know I just wanted to live a more Bohemian lifestyle and this was San Francisco before the dot com era.
“It was a real hippy-dippy place, very Bohemian and full of colourful characters and I was only 18.
“I went on my own, I only had a backpack, I was kind of fearless, I had no fear about anything.
“I didn’t know what I was going to do I only had $700 in my pocket, I really had very little money but I just had this sense of I know I’m going to be okay and this will be amazing and I’ll make it work.
‘KOOKY CHARACTERS’
“I do feel like the way I kind of grew up, my parents were the pioneers of pirate radio in Ireland.
“I was always surrounded by really kooky performancey type characters in the radio industry and then like breaking away from my family at 18 just made me a very strong resilient, very independent person.”
Lacy credits this for helping her survive in the acting industry.She said she earned money in San Francisco working as a bike messenger before quitting and working as burlesque dancer because it was better money.
Lacy explained: “I worked as a bicycle courier on a pushbike but I also worked as a burlesque dancer.
“I ended up really just being a burlesque dancer because it paid so much so I used to work in all the clubs and I would make quite good money in San Francisco back and the rent was quite low.
“So I did burlesque dancing and that supported all my courses. “I trained at the New Conservatory Theater.
TRAINING COSTS
“It was quite expensive but I paid for myself to go through all my training.
“The main reason I came back was because I wanted to go to university and do a degree in acting and I couldn’t do that in America because I wasn’t a legal resident. I came back from that reason only.
“I was really lucky to get accepted into Manchester University and I did my three-year acting degree in Manchester.”
She said platforms such as Netflix and Amazon Prime are great for the industry and revealed she’s gotten more work from then.
Lacy said: “I think that all these new platforms are really great for actors, they’re giving them a bigger platform to play on.
“I filmed The Fall in 2016 and now it has just gone to Netflix. Everyone in the entire world has now seen The Fall so it’s great that our work gets to travel because of all these really exciting platforms.
“There is a resurgence with the Fall and people are recognising me from the Fall and I’m getting more work because of that so they’re brilliant for actors, directors and everybody in the industry, it just means our work gets a bigger platform – a bigger stage really.”
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