Demi Isaac Oviawe has revealed it’s frustrating to still be known as “yer one from Young Offenders” as she is trying to establish her acting career elsewhere.
The 21-year-old, who first starred as Linda in the hit Cork-based comedy series at the age of 16, said that whilst she’ll be forever grateful for her breakout role – she can go nowhere without someone still shouting it at her on the street.
She told the Irish Mirror: “I mean, I’m 21, I’m 22 in November. And I started the Young Offenders and my acting career when I was 16.
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“So that’s six years, and everywhere I go, and I hate saying it because it makes me sound cocky, and I’m not, I’m a confident person but I’m not cocky, everywhere I go it is, ‘There’s yer wan from the Young Offenders that was with Jock’ I wasn’t. My love interest was Conor, but that’s besides the point.
“And I never get, ‘How are you? Or, ‘What project are you working on?’ it’s always, ‘How’s Conor and Jock’. So it is frustrating.
“Since the Young Offenders I’ve done Dancing with the Stars, a short film that won awards, a Netflix film that is coming out in October, Holding, but Covid happened I suppose and there were reruns so in people’s heads I am still Linda.”
Holding is the series based on Graham Nortin’s novel of the same name, which kicked off on Virgin Media One this week.
The series stars Irish actors including Oscar-winner Brenda Fricker, Conleth Hill and Siobhan McSweeney.
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