We spoke w/ Irreverent star colindonnell on going from Arrow & ChicagoMed to Queensland, Australia, his time with the AlmostFamous stage play, and more!
In the drama series Irreverent , criminal mediator Paulo Keegan is forced to hide out in a small beach town in Australia and pose as Mack, the new church Reverend, when his original plan goes unexpectedly awry. After a chance meeting, the real man for the job decides to steal already stolen money, which pushes the strangers to essentially swap lives while also ensuring they form a rather shaky alliance to keep their shared secrets.
With the TV side of things, you went from Arrow to Chicago Med and now to this show, and the shows and characters are all so different. Have you always tried to do that, in your career, as much as you can do that, or is that something that you were able to be more intentional with, after doing something like Arrow?
Everything was a surprise to me, when we got to Australia, from the setting, to the way that we were gonna shoot the place, to all these brand new people around me. Every single one of them was a complete stranger to me. Showing up to Australia with my wife and my then one-year-old child, we sat in the hotel room for two weeks, and I had nothing but these scripts to look at and devour and try to wrap my head around what was gonna happen over the next seven months. It was like a dream come true.
DONNELL: To me, it was super satisfying. I love the way that we end the first season because it leaves the door wide open for where we could possibly go in the future, and it gives a very satisfying end to this portion of Mack’s journey, up to now. How hard do you think that would be for him, going forward? In a second season, what do you think we’ll see change in the dynamic between him and Piper?
Do you think he even really knows who he is? When you’re someone who is constantly just trying to be what everybody needs him to be, just to survive the day, does he know who he actually is, underneath all of that? This show really is so funny. It has such a great balance of humor with some of these insane and crazy things that are happening. Was that humor always there? Did that become more a part of the show, after you started playing off of each other, or was that always on the page?
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