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Dublin Murders' pin-up Killian Scott has revealed he hasn’t worked in the nine months since the series wrapped last March.

The talented actor, who rose to international fame on the back of playing Tommy in Love/Hate, said that the world of film and TV can be a cut-throat business.

But, Killian explained that once you accept rejection is part of the business and not down to your ability, you can rise above it.

“I haven’t filmed or worked since we finished up on Dublin Murders and that was back in the beginning of March,” he admitted.

“I don’t know how long that will continue. It is a combination of two things, finding something that you think is interesting and finding something interesting that you will get.

“Stuff comes in all the time that you fall in love with but it can go away from you so quickly.

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“It is so completely out of my control the best thing you can do is to accept it is nothing to do with you and go along for the ride.

“The key thing for any young actor to really get into their mind is that more often than not the reason for the rejection is because they are not a fit.

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“I think if you accept that, the rejection gets a lot easier. I have gotten 3% to 5% of the things I have gone for.

“The stats are extraordinarily disadvantageous. You just learn to let it go and maybe find a sense of humour about it.

“It is a difficult thing because it is your livelihood and your passion but in the long run it is in your interest to accept this is the way the business is.”

Killian, 34, landed his first big break starring alongside Jack O’Connell and Jack Lowden in the blockbuster flick ’71, depicting the story of a British soldier who’s abandoned by his unit following a riot on the deadly streets of Belfast.

From 2010 to 2014, he played Tommy in Love/Hate, which went on to have five hit seasons.

After several feature films and the US series Damnation he would return to Irish television, playing troubled cop Rob in Dublin Murders.

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“The last couple of projects I did were very special to me,” he says. “I have had that freakishly fortunate run where I have gotten to do things that I have found personally interesting.

“They also happen to be in the company of really good people. I wondered to myself when will my career nosedive off the edge of a cliff because it has been working out so well.”

In Love/Hate he played a gangster with a heavy Dublin accent. This time around he was forced to employ Brad Pitt’s vocal coach to help him nail an English dialect.

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However, he says, with a smile, that people still are still disappointed when his real accent doesn’t match up.

“Brendan Gunn was my dialect coach from Belfast and he has worked with Brad Pitt and Daniel Day Lewis and then with me.

“He worked on the accent and that allowed me to build the character but people now can’t believe I don’t have an English accent.

“I now am kind of used to that reaction. People would come up to me after Love/Hate and approach ‘Tommy’, then I would see the utter disappointment in their faces when I sounded nothing like him.

“Similarly there is a bit of a shock when people know me from Love/Hate and they hear you sounding different in Dublin Murders.”

Dublin Murders received rave reviews in both Ireland and the UK. A co-production between the BBC and RTE the show is currently being screened across North America.

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And Killian – whose real name is Killian Murphy – says he is genuinely thrilled at the international response to the show which was filmed entirely on Irish soil.

“I feel very lucky, because I loved the show and getting to work with Sarah Green as well,” he added.

“She really is extraordinary and I was so lucky to get paired with her. We actually only met up two weeks before filming started and we just hit it off.

“I don’t know what it would have been like filming this show with someone else.

“We really leaned on each other. And we got to co-lead the series which allowed us to really share the burden.

“To see it go down well is a huge bonus for both of us and it is doing its run in America now and it is going out week to week.

“I am always genuinely moved when someone approaches me or tells me they loved it a as body of work.”

Outside of TV Killian has also appeared in other flicks such as 2014’s Calvary and The Commuter, as well as starring as Harry Fox in 2015’s Traders.

But he says that given the nature of the industry, what you do in between work is almost more important than what you are on set.

Which is why he packed up his bags, left London and is practising to be a professional musician in Germany.

“I was living in London for seven years and I had just done a film called Trespass Against Us, this weird British indie film with Brendan Gleeson,” he says. “After that I just had this instinct that i wanted to live somewhere else and the reason I came to Berlin was I wanted to get better at playing guitar.

“A friend suggested Berlin and it sounded good to me so I, three days later, like a cliche, arrived in Berlin with two guitars and not much else.

“By the second day I had rented a room to play in very cheaply and I treated it like a job. I was in there eight hours a day practising. By the time I came out of that and started engaging with acting it was home.”

Unfortunately we won’t be hearing any new music from the Dubliner any time soon. But releasing an original album is very much in his future plans.

“At some point my intention will be to focus on music completely, and just give it six months to write an album,” he says.

“It is something that is important to me and is something that when I am not filming I am basically spend all my time doing. It is a totally lame and boring life and I am sorry to have to tell you it’s not more exciting.

“But I spend the mornings conjugating German verbs and then the evenings practising guitar – until the next project comes my way.”