Meet The Misfit
Robert Sheehan, the hyperactive star of E4’s Misfits and Killing Bono, stops bouncing around for just long enough to tell Roe McDermott about shooting red-hot sex scenes with 76-year-olds, how he caused Nicolas Cage to burn his own hand in order to stop laughing on set, and working with Pete Postlethwaite in his last ever film role. Oh, and Killing Bono...
Roe McDermott, 30 Mar 2011
The first thought that occurs when Killing Bono star Robert Sheehan walks into the room is that he really is exceptionally pretty. The second is that he’s surprisingly tanned. And the third is that I should have had a lot more coffee.
“Look at you!” the Portlaoise native exclaims, when I comment on his bronzed complexion. “You’re so wonderfully pasty. You’ve got skin the Japanese would embrace!”
Before I have time to decide whether I should laugh, swoon or cry, he’s bounded to the other side of the room, plonked himself down on a chair and put his booted feet on the coffee table. “I’m going to sit like this because I’m a rock and roll rebel, baby!”
Except he doesn’t sit. He’s immediately on his feet again, admiring the Killing Bono poster behind us and talking at the speed of light.
“God, Ben Barnes is a good-looking bastard, isn’t he?” he says, looking at the man who plays former Hot Press writer Neil McCormick in the film. “Yeah, the tan, I was over in Cambodia for a month. I had some time off so I went over. No work, no self-progression, just lots of heavy drinking. Would you like a drink by the way?” And he’s over to the other side of the room again, pouring a glass of water. If he keeps bouncing around the place like this I’m going to get whiplash – I already feel like a spectator at Wimbledon.
Robert plays Neil’s brother Ivan McCormick – the man who might have been in U2. Ivan attended the original rehearsals for the world’s biggest band. The way the film tells it, Bono informed Neil that the nascent U2 wanted Ivan in on rhythm guitar. But, in a piece of brotherly manipulation, Neil kept the news to himself and set about the task of competing with U2 in the race to stardom. Guess who wins? Well, Robert doesn’t seem to want to talk about that. Yet!
Thankfully he does settle down when I ask him about his acting debut in the hard-hitting drama Song for a Raggy Boy, slumping in his chair and closing his eyes. “Oh we’re going to talk about my childhood are we? Okay, as long as you don’t ask me when I first had sexual feelings towards my mother – well, fine, I’ll answer that one. I was seven.”
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