{"id":449925,"date":"2026-05-15T08:45:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T08:45:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/449925\/"},"modified":"2026-05-15T08:45:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T08:45:11","slug":"the-casting-director-changed-my-life-with-one-phone-call-clare-dunne-on-her-big-break-the-return-of-kin-and-oscars-heartbreak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/449925\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018The casting director changed my life with one phone call\u2019 \u2013 Clare Dunne on her big break, the return of \u2018Kin\u2019 and Oscars heartbreak"},"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\">\nIrish actress talks to Chris Wasser about her new movie \u2018500 Miles\u2019 with Bill Nighy, summer holidays in Wexford, and an Oscars campaign that was scuppered by the pandemic\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Clare Dunne says there was Oscars talk about \u2018Herself\u2019 and then the pandemic hit. Photo: Getty\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/tyImages_1370342947.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)\">Clare Dunne says there was Oscars talk about \u2018Herself\u2019 and then the pandemic hit. Photo: Getty<\/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)\">Clare Dunne was just 12 years old when her mum Angela signed her up for a local drama group.<\/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)\">As a child, Dunne loved to entertain her friends with songs, sketches and storytelling. She was quite good at it too, and it wasn\u2019t long before a friendly educator offered some crucial advice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Irish actress talks to Chris Wasser about her new movie \u2018500 Miles\u2019 with Bill Nighy, summer holidays in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":449926,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[321,52180,93,61,60],"class_list":["post-449925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-chris-wasser","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449925","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=449925"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449925\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/449926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=449925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=449925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=449925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}