promoted to series regular.Richard appeared on Ireland AM where he spoke about how he landed the coveted role.The actor had been working in LA in Shameless but once that wrapped he went to visit his wife in Rome.‘So I finished Shameless and I’d been away from my family for five or six months when I was doing that,’ he explained.‘I went back to Rome, my wife was shooting a TV show she’s an actress as well a very good actress.‘She was shooting that for seven months or something and by the end of that seven months I was like, “Alright I need to go to LA and do something because I’m starting to go a little bit crazy even though I’m in Rome.”‘He went on to say: ‘I literally got on a plane to come out and see what was happening, see what was.
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