{"id":417403,"date":"2026-04-25T20:10:39","date_gmt":"2026-04-25T20:10:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/417403\/"},"modified":"2026-04-25T20:10:39","modified_gmt":"2026-04-25T20:10:39","slug":"fame-was-a-bit-of-a-shock-to-the-system-colin-morgan-on-his-rise-to-stardom-new-movie-and-writing-his-first-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/417403\/","title":{"rendered":"Fame was \u2018a bit of a shock to the system\u2019 \u2013 Colin Morgan on his rise to stardom, new movie and writing his first book"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">\nColin Morgan went from little-known\u2028theatre actor to a major TV star in the space of three weeks. Here, he tells Chris Wasser about his love of cinema, why he still keeps a low profile and why he\u2019s excited and nervous ahead of his debut novel\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Colin Morgan has managed to remain quite private despite his rise to fame. Photo: Ruth Crafer\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/ifColin Morgan.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)\">Colin Morgan has managed to remain quite private despite his rise to fame. Photo: Ruth Crafer<\/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)\">Colin Morgan is a bit of a mystery. Or at least that\u2019s how it looks from the outside.<\/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)\">A quick google will tell you the Northern Irish actor keeps himself to himself, and you won\u2019t find anything concrete about personal relationships or favourite hobbies. You certainly won\u2019t find him anywhere on social media.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Colin Morgan went from little-known\u2028theatre actor to a major TV star in the space of three weeks. Here,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":417404,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[52180,93,61,60],"class_list":["post-417403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-chris-wasser","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417403","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=417403"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417403\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/417404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=417403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=417403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=417403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}