Created by O’Dowd (who also cameos in a few episodes), the six-part Sky Atlantic show follows Hollywood producer Wendy Patterson (Hendricks) as she returns home to the fictional Irish town of Drumbán where she was born in order to shoot a ludicrous “historical” fiction adaptation called I Am Celt.
As a new Irish dramedy series comes to Sky Atlantic, Helen Coffey sits down with the show’s creator and leading lady to talk alien encounters, Celtic history and the siren call to return to our roots.
The tone sits somewhere between comedy and melodrama – O’Dowd was aiming for “opera”, he says – as the cast of misfit characters uncover more about the town’s long history of attracting interstellar visitors.
I’m afraid I have to agree with O’Dowd on this one: Hendricks emanates pure, unadulterated La La Land.
“There is a train of thought that’s going on during this Gaelic Revival period we’re going through now, where a lot of those folk stories are maybe trying to tell us about biodiversity issues and a lot of native knowledge that gets lost when you’re colonised and your language is taken from you,” he muses.
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