Why Home of Guinness’ Jack Gleeson ‘retired’ for a decade after Recreation of Thrones

Many Netflix viewers tuning in to observe Home of Guinness, a present that many are calling the ‘subsequent Peaky Blinders’, could also be shocked to see Jack Gleeson on their screens.

Gleeson, who’s finest identified for taking part in King Joffrey Baratheon in Recreation of Thrones, stars within the present as Byron Hedges.

The collection, releasing at the moment on Netflix, follows the Guinness household and the battle for energy after the demise of the household’s patriarch, Benjamin Guinness.

While Gleeson doesn’t play one of many Guinness kids who lead the plot or the primary antagonist, performed by James Norton, he’s a serious a part of the TV present in his greatest function since being killed off on Recreation of Thrones.

The actor was believed to have a promising profession following his four-season stint on the beloved present, with Joffrey broadly thought to be one of the vital hated villains of all time.

After he left the present, nevertheless, Gleeson disappeared from the general public eye, not performing in something however a small indie movie or showing in a number of episodes of TV for the following ten years.

Talking to Entertainment Weekly in 2014 after Joffrey’s demise, Gleeson stated that he was retiring from performing at 21.

The actor identified that he’d been performing since he was eight years previous, saying: “I simply stopped having fun with it as a lot as I used to.

“Now there’s the prospect of doing it for a residing, whereas up till now it was all the time one thing I did for recreation with my pals, or in the summertime for some enjoyable. I loved it.

“Whenever you make a residing from one thing, it adjustments your relationship with it. It is not like I hate it, it is simply not what I wish to do.”

Throughout his performing hiatus, Gleeson attended Trinity School Dublin and co-founded a theatre firm along with his pals.

Talking extra not too long ago about his choice, Gleeson spoke to The Hook on the Home of Guinness premiere, disavowing rumours as to why he had taken a break.

He stated: “Properly, I can say fortunately it wasn’t as a result of I obtained any type of abuse from anyone. Folks confuse the actor with the character, and after Recreation of Thrones, and even throughout, I used to be persevering with to behave but it surely was extra simply with a theatre firm I had arrange with some pals in Dublin.”

He completed by saying he began to ‘miss’ display performing, main him to return after a decade.

Starring in Home of Guinness, the historic drama releasing at the moment has obtained blended evaluations from critics, sparking issues for many who had been instructed this was the lovechild of Succession and Peaky Blinders.



The Irish Instances referred to as the present ‘wildly untrue’ and added that: “One downside with Home of Guinness is that Steven Knight’s understanding of Eire’s experiences of colonialism is rudimentary at finest.”

Empire was blended on the collection, nevertheless, giving it three stars, saying: “In comparison with Peaky Blinders, we have now right here a way more attention-grabbing backdrop to a a lot much less attention-grabbing set of characters.

“The result’s a narrative that feels skinny: characters you solely half care about, depths that get skated over, and a style-over-substance pint that might have used a barely higher head.”

Home of Guinness is obtainable to stream on Netflix now.