{"id":372365,"date":"2026-03-30T03:35:26","date_gmt":"2026-03-30T03:35:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/372365\/"},"modified":"2026-03-30T03:35:26","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T03:35:26","slug":"colm-meaney-on-whether-acting-roles-are-slowing-down-would-you-ask-liam-neeson-that","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/372365\/","title":{"rendered":"Colm Meaney on whether\u00a0acting roles are slowing down: \u2018Would you ask Liam Neeson that?\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Colm Meaney as Ethan and Sally Field as Tova in 'Remarkably Bright Creatures'. Photo: Diyah Pera\/Netflix\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Meaney.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Colm Meaney as Ethan and Sally Field as Tova in &#8216;Remarkably Bright Creatures&#8217;. Photo: Diyah Pera\/Netflix<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">He is one of Ireland\u2019s most recognised faces, having appeared in roles such as The Snapper, Star Trek and portraying the late Martin McGuinness in The Journey a decade ago, which earned him an Irish Film and Television Award (Ifta).<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Yet Colm Meaney rebuffs claims that roles slow down as thespians age.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Colm Meaney as Ethan and Sally Field as Tova in &#8216;Remarkably Bright Creatures&#8217;. Photo: Diyah Pera\/Netflix He is&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":372366,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[49654,93,61,60,312,28371,7322,12109,1868,5042,44452,102024],"class_list":{"0":"post-372365","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-barry-keoghan","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-jessie-buckley","13":"tag-johnny-depp","14":"tag-liam-neeson","15":"tag-martin-mcguinness","16":"tag-netflix","17":"tag-paul-mescal","18":"tag-troy-parrott","19":"tag-world-cup-2026"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372365","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=372365"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372365\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/372366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=372365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=372365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=372365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}