“The Paper” star Domhnall Gleeson hears a lot from journalists these days — and the frequent refrain from reporters is that they appreciate being seen as their profession struggles to maintain its foothold. “It’s been a common theme that people who have seen the show and are involved in journalism seem to like it and seem to recognize that we care about it,” Gleeson tells Variety‘s Awards Circuit Podcast, “and that’s been a lovely kind of aspect to the whole thing.”
But sometimes it’s also a bit melancholy. Most reporters he runs into are big fans of the Peacock series — it’s just that, well, “they’re like, it’s also a sad aspect to it. You are watching the reality of it is the buildings, the various newspapers that I visited over the doing the prep, they were all now in smaller spaces than they had been. And in our show, it’s sort of exemplified with the fact that they share half of their floor with a toilet paper company.”
Gleeson spoke with the Awards Circuit Podcast about what to expect in Season 2 of “The Paper,” which just wrapped shooting, including the relationship between his character, Ned, and Chelsea Frei’s Mare. He also talks about his first time in Variety (and his early career), and takes the 10 Questions quiz.
