{"id":435334,"date":"2026-05-06T15:41:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T15:41:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/435334\/"},"modified":"2026-05-06T15:41:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T15:41:10","slug":"actor-richard-flood-youre-nervous-about-telling-jokes-on-set-in-america-youre-afraid-youll-offend-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/435334\/","title":{"rendered":"Actor Richard Flood: \u2018You\u2019re nervous about telling jokes on set in America. You\u2019re afraid you\u2019ll offend people\u2019"},"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\">\nThe Dublin actor on working on \u2018Grey\u2019s Anatomy\u2019 and \u2018Shameless\u2019, living in Rome with his Italian actress wife and returning to work at the Gate Theatre after 15 years\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Richard Flood: \u2018There\u2019s so many correlations with \u2018An Ideal Husband\u2019 and what seems to be going on in the real world'. Photo: Mark Condren\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/tor Richard Flood_5.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)\">Richard Flood: \u2018There\u2019s so many correlations with \u2018An Ideal Husband\u2019 and what seems to be going on in the real world&#8217;. Photo: Mark Condren<\/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)\">I\u2019m with actor Richard Flood in a rehearsal space at the Gate Theatre, far from the glamour of the auditorium. Although the room is harshly lit, and we sit opposite each other on plastic chairs, any initial awkwardness dissolves once we start talking.<\/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)\">When he leans back and puts his arms behind his head, I notice a large blue and yellow cuff around his wrist and wonder whether it\u2019s a fitness device I haven\u2019t yet heard of. I look closer and see that it\u2019s a Simpsons watch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Dublin actor on working on \u2018Grey\u2019s Anatomy\u2019 and \u2018Shameless\u2019, living in Rome with his Italian actress wife&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":435335,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[93,61,60,279],"class_list":["post-435334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-review-magazine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435334","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=435334"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435334\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/435335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=435334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=435334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=435334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}