![]() Today he is best known as Owen Hunt in Grey’s Anatomy, but he also provides the voice of John “Soap” MacTavish in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare. The young and despairing Glaswegian priest, fresh from the seminary, who is part of the group that gets lost in the lingerie department in A Christmassy Ted, is played by Kevin McKidd, who also starred that same year as Tommy in Trainspotting, directed by Danny Boyle. ![]() And I was there too for the recording of the very last episode – I’ll come back to that – on February 27th, 1998, the day before Dermot Morgan, who played the title role, died of a heart attack at the peak of his fame. I used to go to the recording of the shows at the London Studios on the South Bank on a Friday night – a sneak preview of the next series and a free bar: what wasn’t to like? That’s where I was the night the IRA broke its ceasefire on February 9th, 1996 with a bomb in London’s Docklands – way to spoil a party. ![]() Okay, I wasn’t actually in seminary with the lads, but I was at the press launch for the very first series, in the Irish Club in Belgravia – very fancy – in April 1995.įeck, I was even at the press launch the previous year for Paris, the first sitcom which Arthur Mathews and Graham Linehan wrote together, (starring Alexei Sayle as Alain Degout, a feckless artist in 1920s Paris), where they told me about their unlikely plan for a comedy series about three priests banished to an Irish island. ![]()
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