{"id":206291,"date":"2025-11-29T10:02:12","date_gmt":"2025-11-29T10:02:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/206291\/"},"modified":"2025-11-29T10:02:12","modified_gmt":"2025-11-29T10:02:12","slug":"actor-kate-gilmore-im-always-jealous-of-my-friends-who-have-gone-into-normal-jobs-who-can-get-mortgages-and-go-on-holidays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/206291\/","title":{"rendered":"Actor Kate Gilmore: \u2018I\u2019m always jealous of my friends who have gone into normal jobs, who can get mortgages and go on holidays\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">\nUnlike many actors, Kate Gilmore never felt the need to have a back-up plan. Here, she talks about going on The Voice of Ireland at 18, working as a tour guide between roles and how Irish theatre has changed in the decade since Waking the Feminists\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Kate Gilmore pictured at the Abbey Theatre. Photo: Gerry Mooney\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/GM Kate Gilmore 005.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Kate Gilmore pictured at the Abbey Theatre. Photo: Gerry Mooney<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Actor Kate Gilmore sinks her face into her hands in mock-shame. \u201cOh, God, Lord above,\u201d she says. \u201cNow, that\u2019s something I would maybe go back and tell myself not to do.\u201d We are talking about her appearance on The Voice of Ireland back in 2012 when she was 18 years old.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">\u201cIt was fun. It was a fun experience,\u201d she says. \u201cI love singing. I love music. And I had, in my teenage years, done some competitions locally and won some money. And then when this came along, I was 18, and I thought, why not?\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Unlike many actors, Kate Gilmore never felt the need to have a back-up plan. Here, she talks about&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":206292,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[75],"tags":[18,117,36398,19,17,2119,1181],"class_list":{"0":"post-206291","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-eire","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-fair-city","11":"tag-ie","12":"tag-ireland","13":"tag-kirsty-blake-knox","14":"tag-rte"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115632416585852313","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206291","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=206291"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206291\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/206292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}