{"id":49603,"date":"2025-09-07T18:57:19","date_gmt":"2025-09-07T18:57:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/49603\/"},"modified":"2025-09-07T18:57:19","modified_gmt":"2025-09-07T18:57:19","slug":"padraig-cusack-my-dad-just-said-these-things-happen-he-said-that-he-was-away-a-lot-and-having-company-helped-him-through-whatever-he-was-doing-and-he-ended-up-having-a-child-none-of-us-are","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/49603\/","title":{"rendered":"P\u00e1draig Cusack: \u2018My dad just said these things happen. He said that he was away a lot and having company helped him through whatever he was doing and he ended up having a child. None of us are perfect\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\">\nThe producer on growing up in Dalkey, and family friends including Elizabeth Taylor and Edna O\u2019Brien\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"P\u00e1draig Cusack has a production at the upcoming Dublin Theatre Festival. Photo: Michael Mac Sweeney\/Provision\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/23e0a8da-f59d-494a-8852-8ca5ac2335e4.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)\">P\u00e1draig Cusack has a production at the upcoming Dublin Theatre Festival. Photo: Michael Mac Sweeney\/Provision<\/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)\">\u2018It\u2019s no accident that I like the company of actors, I\u2019d want to. There are enough of them in my family,\u201d says P\u00e1draig Cusack. The 63-year-old theatre producer is part of the famous Irish acting family.<\/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)\">His parents were both actors \u2013 Cyril Cusack and Maureen Kiely. Almost all of his siblings \u2013 Sorcha, Sin\u00e9ad, Niamh and half-sister Catherine went on to be actors too. His brother Paul was a TV producer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The producer on growing up in Dalkey, and family friends including Elizabeth Taylor and Edna O\u2019Brien P\u00e1draig Cusack&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":49604,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[75],"tags":[18,117,19,17,23942],"class_list":{"0":"post-49603","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-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-people-culture-magazine"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49603","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=49603"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49603\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}