INTeRVIeW | mario rosenstock
All the world’s
a stage...
Gift Grub star Mario Rosenstock tells Aoife Crowley B.A. (2012) about how we’re really all actors.
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est known now for his skits, satires and mimicry of public figures, Mario Rosenstock B.A. (1993) was not originally focused on comedy. He wanted to be an actor. His parents, however, were less enthused about this idea, and suggested he might study for a degree in case his career on stage failed to materialise. Rosenstock chose economics and Politics in Trinity. However, from the moment he arrived in Trinity, his focus was on being part of DU Players. Acting, rehearsals and socialising with other Players quickly took precedence over academia. Rosenstock remembers the Players schedule being incredibly intense. “You know, when you get involved in a society in Trinity, it takes over your whole life. You live, breathe and walk it. You go drinking with people from that society. You hang out with them and you miss lectures because you have meetings to attend to.” “I remember wanting to do as many plays as possible, be on stage as much as possible and work with as many actors, fraternise with as many people in the place as possible, and go out with them. I remember my girlfriends at the time were all from Players. It was just all-consuming and you got obsessed with it.” The friends he made through Players
remain his closest friends to this day. “Although I have still some friends from school, the people I met in Trinity are my best friends. They were the ones with whom I stayed friends… best man at my wedding and all of that.” Dominic West B.A. (1992) was also in Players at this time, and Rosenstock and he acted in about six plays together. Rosenstock recalls an incident which could have changed the shape of television history. “Dominic and I shared a really terrible car crash. The car skidded, and he was hurled out of a Peugeot 205 into a ditch. But he got up and walked away, no problem. There would have been no Wire, if it had been different.”
the people I met in Trinity are my best friends. They were the ones with whom I stayed friends… best man at my wedding and all of that”
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