Ex-Mrs Brown’s Boys star Rory Cowan has revealed he is writing his own TV series.
The actor, 62, will be basing the show on his autobiography, Mrs Cowan’s Boy, which he released in 2019.
Rory is writing the book with Karl Broderick and said he hopes to entertain viewers with funny stories growing up in Ireland. He said: “I’m talking about the gay scenes in Dublin in the 70s and 80s when there was no protection, no rights.
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“We were criminalised anyway but at the same time it was a great scene.” Dubliner Rory said he got the idea to write the series after watching It’s A Sin, which focused on the Aids crisis.
The Fair City actor added: “So I wanted to write about that and I got the idea from It’s A Sin. That was very true to its time. So many people don’t know, like the hilarious things…
“[I know] people died, they weren’t entitled to inheritance, they had no rights. But there are very funny stories around it so I wanted to do something about that.
“I have all the stories and they are all true based on people I know.
“Ireland is great now, but it was s**t then for gay people. It really was, with regards to rights.”
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