Tell us about Mrs Meany
Mrs Meany is the housekeeper/cook for the sergeant of the village. She’s a typical country woman but we don’t know too much about her. She’s known to clean houses around the local area and ends up with the sergeant, which means she gets all the gossip.
What attracted you to the project?
What really attracted me to this project was this long speech that’s about 6 pages long and it was so beautifully written. I just thought, I’d like to be the person that says those words.
Who are Mrs Meany’s key relationships?
Mrs Meany works for PJ, and she’s very fond of him, she looks after him and she’s very protective of him. Linus sometimes gets on her nerves but she’s also fond of him.
There’s no one else really of Mrs Meany’s age in the village so she’s not really involved with the other characters too much but I don’t think any of that interests her.
What do you think of the whodunnit murder mystery?
Everyone in that script is capable of murder, viewer suspicions will go from one character to the other.
What do you think viewers will enjoy most about Holding?
I can only go by what I enjoyed myself and I enjoyed the story, the twists, the murder and the craic. It’s very funny in places but it’s also a very serious story. It unravels, it’s not a quick whodunnit, it’s lovely that bits and pieces come along throughout the series.
