Kin star Clare Dunne has revealed HBO turned down buying the rights of the hit crime drama – because American bosses thought it was too much like The Sopranos.
The actress, who stars as Amanda Kinsella on the RTE One gritty gangland drama, revealed HBO bosses turned down the chance to buy up the show for US audiences.
She said: “I suppose if Love/Hate was like The Wire or suchlike, our show is like The Sopranos. "In fact, HBO didn’t buy the show because they thought it was too much like The Sopranos.
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“People always say to me that Amanda reminds them of Walt White in Breaking Bad because she also breaks bad.
“Now season two continues with a lot of these portraits of various characters and goes inside them a bit more.
“The women start to become something deeper in the new series which is very like a game of chess; there are a lot of big characters on the board, and the story plays out very intricately.”
She opens up about what viewers can expect from season two of Kin, which airs this Sunday night at 9:30pm on RTE One.
The Dubliner said: “There are shifts of power within the family and there is also an old member returning to the family that causes ructions internally,” she told the RTE Guide.
She teases that the Kinsella family are getting attacked from all sides.
“This is a real earthquake divide that could potentially split the family irreversibly. The enemies outside are more international and more sophisticated.
“In many ways it’s more of the same but massively ramped up with a much bigger cast and more complex storylines.
“Amanda’s a good boss but problems happen because otherwise there would be nothing to watch,” she added.
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