Anthony Boyle Gets the Guinness Flowing at Netflix Premiere

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Irish actor Anthony Boyle got himself ready for the ‘House of Guinness’ London Premiere by indulging in a few glasses of The Black Stuff with the show’s creator Steven Knight. He was joined on the red carpet by his co-stars from the new Netflix period drama, and even made a stop to interrupt Seamus O’Hara after hearing his name mid-interview.    Set in 19th-century Dublin and New York, ‘House of Guinness’ explores an epic story inspired by one of Europe's most famous and enduring dynasties - the Guinness Family. It launches on Netflix on Thursday 25th September 2025. Report by Burtonj. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn

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00:00We also got drunk a lot off set.

00:01Yeah, I'm feeling it right now.

00:03Me and Stephen Knight had a couple of Guinness before this.

00:05You're so good.

00:06You're so good.

00:07This guy, this guy.

00:08I don't really want to talk about my character.

00:10I want to talk about the cameraman's Ireland rugby top with Guinness on it.

00:15Cut back to me.

00:16Yeah, I play Arthur Guinness, who's...

00:18He'd much rather be in London, having the crack, drinking, shagging.

00:23And unfortunately, he has to come back and run the Guinness brewery,

00:28which is something that he doesn't want to do.

00:31Was he a character who, I guess, growing up in Ireland,

00:33do you have a familiarity with him,

00:35but then you just learned so many more layers to him

00:37as you research his character?

00:38I mean, I knew a wee bit about the family,

00:40but I didn't know too much about this.

00:42I knew Arthur Guinness, his name's sake, which is grandfather,

00:45but I didn't know too much about him himself.

00:47And that was the joy of Stephen's writing, you know,

00:50getting to learn a wee bit about the family

00:52and getting to learn a bit about Irish history more and more.

00:54And, yeah, loved it.

00:56I'm going to make an admission.

00:57The first work of yours that I saw you in was Master of the Air.

01:00Oh, yeah.

01:01I didn't know you're Irish until I started doing research.

01:03I was like, oh, damn.

01:04How wonderful to then star in a show and be your natural self,

01:07although you definitely do an accent work for this as well,

01:10but it's nice to be an Irish man at least.

01:11Yeah, thanks for that.

01:13I love Masters of the Air.

01:14It's such good fun shooting it.

01:16I mean, I had to do a bit of an accent for this

01:17because, you know, Arthur is someone who sort of renounces his Irishness

01:22and that doesn't want to be Irish and is trying to sort of quell that down

01:26and sort of reach off to the British Isles and embrace the sort of Englishness of it.

01:31But, yeah, I had a lot of fun shooting it.

01:34It was good, Greg.

01:34Tom Crasimi, your co-stars.

01:36Like, I've loved the camaraderie amongst all of you,

01:39specifically the siblings as well.

01:41Was there any work done in rehearsals to, like, kind of inform your relationships

01:44or was it just turn up on set?

01:46To be fair, lad, I don't really like doing a lot of chatting to the other actor

01:51and being like, oh, where did you grow up and what was it like when you were five years old?

01:54I think it's better when you just meet each other on screen

01:57and you're just, I don't know what the other actor's going to bring

01:59and I just bring something and suddenly we're just doing it.

02:03But we've done a lot of, we've done some rehearsals with the siblings

02:07and it was good and we also got drunk a lot off set.

02:10There was a lot of Guinness people in Liverpool,

02:11which is essentially the 33rd county of Ireland.

02:15So we had a lot of crack drinking, having fun

02:18and a lot of sibling-esque bonds were formed.

02:21So I love to hear that you had Guinness at the end of the day as well

02:23because there's no such thing as Guinness fatigue, is there?

02:26Like, you know, you're talking about it all day, you see it all day.

02:28At the end of the day, you're still going to go home and have a little Guinness on you.

02:30Yeah, I'm feeling it right now.

02:31Me and Stephen Knight had a couple of Guinness before this.

02:33Have you seen them all lined up downstairs?

02:35There's a pyramid of Guinness ready for you.

02:36I haven't seen it, no.

02:37We went to a bar facing the hotel called The Lyric,

02:39which is a great wee bar, and we had a few pints

02:40and yeah, it's got me in the mood to talk to people about the show.

02:44And finally from me, what are we going to look forward to you in next?

02:47Obviously, we want a second season at House of Guinness, we all do.

02:50But what else are we working on at the moment?

02:51I'm doing a thing right now called The Altruists.

02:53We'll be on Netflix next year.

02:55It's me and Julia Garner, who is the best actress in the world.

02:58I'm shooting out in Vancouver at the minute.

03:01And then I got a film coming out, End of Walsh.

03:04This film, Clive Bernard directed, it'll come out next year as well.

03:07And then just hopefully more Guinness-related shows,

03:11or most shows that can give me money that I can spend on Guinness.

03:15Whatever the answer should be.

03:16All right, I appreciate you, thanks for your time.

03:18Appreciate it.

03:18Hi, welcome to the premiere of House of Guinness in London.

03:23It's pretty spectacular so far.

03:24Guinness is flowing downstairs, that's very exciting.

03:27Please tell us about your character

03:28and where you fit into the rich world of House of Guinness.

03:31So I play Patrick Cochran.

03:32He is the leader of the IRB,

03:35the Irish Republican Brotherhood in Dublin.

03:37The IRB made up Finianism.

03:40So Finianism was revolutionary nationalism.

03:42And the Finians profoundly disagreed, even hated the Guinness family

03:46because they represented colonialism

03:48and the accumulation of wealth and things

03:51that the Irish poor were not benefiting from.

03:55So to play kind of the adversary role, you know, the antagonist,

03:59is that just like delicious as an actor?

04:01Are you happy to be that combative, I'd say?

04:04Yeah, I mean, it's good fun.

04:06It's great fun.

04:07Especially when you know and love the actors

04:09that you're being combative with.

04:10So we had a lot of fun doing that.

04:15But I think in a story this big, this vast,

04:19it's important to tell that side of Irish history

04:21and that particular aspect of Irish opinion.

04:25And it really was a privilege to be the person

04:27that was allowed to do that.

04:28It's funny to see that this is a Stephen Knight project

04:31who kind of a lot of people know as he's a proud Brummie.

04:33But this cast is full of proud Irishmen as well.

04:35Like, how do you think Stephen did bringing,

04:37telling this Irish story to the world?

04:40No, I mean, he was incredible.

04:42His script is very authentic.

04:45It's very sincere.

04:46It's very humane.

04:47And that's the main thing.

04:49I mean, Irish, the Irishness is an idea.

04:52And it's an idea that has been exported all across the world.

04:55And that idea is available to anybody that wants to take it up.

04:58Stephen Knight, he's not from Ireland.

05:00He's a proud Brummie.

05:01But he knows full well what that idea means.

05:03And I think he's communicated it beautifully.

05:06Let's sing some praises of some of your castmates

05:08because there's spectacular performances across the board

05:10from both Irish and British actors alike.

05:13Who took your breath away?

05:14Who made you stand up and say,

05:16wow, look at this guy, good girl.

05:18Louis Partridge, Anthony Boyle, Emily Fern, Fiona Shea,

05:23Michael Michael Hatton, Hilda Faye, Derville Curlin.

05:26I could not let you hear Anthony Boyle.

05:28Hey, how are you doing?

05:30Hey, how are you?

05:30He's amazing.

05:30It just feels weird when you hear your own name

05:32and not join the conversation.

05:34You're so good.

05:35This guy, this guy, this guy.

05:37There's lots of people.

05:38There's Hilda Faye, there's Michael Michael Hatton,

05:41there's Jessica Reynolds.

05:44I mean, everybody is actually at the top of their game.

05:46So it's going to be a joy.

05:49Anywhere you look on the screen,

05:50it's going to be the best of the best.

05:51I am.

05:52I love seeing that because that probably answers this question.

05:54You know, you go hell for leather at each other,

05:56screaming at each other on set.

05:58At the end of the day, we're breaking bread.

05:59We're sharing a glass of Guinness, right?

06:01Yeah.

06:03I mean, yeah.

06:04I mean, if only history were as simple as that.

06:07And as a TV show, they very much deal with history.

06:09So as much as I personally would like to, you know,

06:12be moving forward peacefully,

06:14the characters that we're dealing with are big, big personalities.

06:18And those things are never going to end well.

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