Dublin actor Chris Newman, famous for playing Darren's ill fated brother Robbie on hit crime drama Love/Hate, has hilariously opened up about the 'worst day' of his acting career.
Taking to Twitter today, the IFTA nominated actor said that 12 years ago today he "accepted a job that would end up being the worst day" of his professional life - when he tried to spoof an Irish-speaking role with a disastrous result.
According to Chris, he studied Irish in school but that he can't speak the language fluently, although he managed to bag himself a role as Gaeilge.
He said: "I learned my piece off by heart with the help of a friend who is fluent. Wrote it all down phonetically. Completely blagged the audition.
"Yes, Irish speaker is on my CV but so is horse riding and fencing. Spoof ‘til there’s proof that’s my motto.
Unfortunately for Chris, the script had been "revised" when he turned up on set to play his new role.
"Now when I say the script was COMPLETELY different," he wrote.
"If I spoke the language I’m sure it was just a slight rewording. But to me, the spoofer, they were just random words I didn’t know how to pronounce in a random order. And there was half a page of them.
"What unfolded over the next 8 hours or so was something that still leaves me staring at the ceiling if I think about it before going to sleep. Look, if this happened to me now I’d just put my hands up and say listen I’m sorry, I can’t speak Irish and I can’t do this new dialogue."
Chris spoke his lines over and over on set, but despite his valiant efforts, it didn't quite work out.
And his final tweet in the side-splitting thread detailed the final indignity, with Chris writing: "It did end. And I’d cost them a fortune in overtime and when it aired on TV, I was dubbed. The end."
It wasn't quite the end for the talented Dubliner, who would go on to play fan favourite character Detective Dastardly aka Rory Walsh in Red Rock from 2015.
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