Kin star Aidan Gillen has said he hasn’t been told if the gritty crime show will return for a second series.
The final episode of the RTE gangland show about a war between two Dublin crime families proved a huge hit with Irish viewers, with an average of 502,000 people tuning into RTÉ One and a significant number of viewers catching up on the show after the live broadcast with a consolidated figure of 620,000 viewers for the first seven episodes.
But lead actor Aidan — who played Frank Kinsella — has heard “nothing officially” about if the show has landed a second series.
He said: “Not officially, no.”
Speaking on the red carpet at the premiere of Gabriel Byrne’s Walking With Ghosts at the Gaiety Theatre, Aiden said he would “like to see more of everything” when asked if he would love to see the show return before declining to talk any more about Kin.
It comes after IFTA-nominated film and TV director Diarmuid Goggins said landing a second series is a “lottery”.
He said: “It’s a lottery. We have to wait and see so I don’t really know. I have no insight. I wish I could give it you but from my own part, I wish, and I hope. I feel that the crew did a great job and I’d love to see it again.
“There is a certain element of closure, but you can see we’ve also left things wide open with certain characters that we’d love to explore in the second season.
“The ending isn’t a cliff-hanger where we’d pick up from the exact same place if we got the go ahead for season two. At the same time Peter McKenna [Kin’s writer] and I wanted to treat the ending as the end of a season and to be happy with that and if more comes, more comes.”
Aidan is currently enjoying some downtime after his play at the Abbey Theatre in Dublin was cut short just a week before it was set to close due to complications regarding Covid-19.
