Éanna Hardwicke is on a roll. When I last chatted to the Corkman, just before Christmas, he was still processing the acclaim for his role as a manipulative fraudster in the BBC TV series The Sixth Commandment . His engines were burning fiercely.
He had been to Cannes with Lorcan Finnegan’s Vivarium in 2019. He was part of the Normal People contingent a year later. In 2023 he won acclaim for his performance in Robert Higgins and Patrick McGivney’s drama Lakelands .
Look at him now with his bushy moustache and all. “It’s for Chekhov!” he says. Ah, yes.
What did that playwright not quite say? If you hang a moustache over the fireplace in act one make sure it’s discharged by act five. Hardwicke is receiving raves for his performance opposite Nina Hoss in The Cherry Orchard at the Donmar Warehouse , in the West End of London. The production got five stars from the Guardian .
“Éanna Hardwicke makes a brilliantly funny stage debut as the bookkeeper Epikhodov,” the New York Times said . Now we’re about to see him in Michael Kinirons’s excellent Irish film The Sparrow. And there’s more.
In March he received a Bafta nomination as best supporting actor for his performance in The Sixth Commandment. He couldn’t get past Matthew Macfadyen on the Succession juggernaut, but the nomination surely offered confirmation, if any more were needed, that he’d arrived. READ MORE Taylor Swift in the Aviva review: ‘You know this but nobody does it like you Dublin’ Tayl.
