a bunch of Irish actors<\/a> making a show about Guinness,\u201d she says with a laugh. \u201cWe drank a lot of Guinness, and we went out a lot and socialized. Because it’s a big, ensemble piece and everyone has their own storylines, we made a big effort to get to know each other off set, and it was pretty special.\u201d<\/p>\nHere, McCormack opens her camera roll to T&C <\/em>to share a behind-the-scenes look at the show.<\/p>\n\n\nPhoto credit: Courtesy Niamh McCormack<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\u201cOn a really, really hot day in August or September we were in these incredible costumes but they were very heavy and very warm. So, they got an ice cream truck and we all had a little scoop for dessert. Here\u2019s Fionn [O\u2019Shea, who plays Benjamin Guinness] in his villain-esque jacket, looking very good eating the ice cream.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\nPhoto credit: Courtesy Niamh McCormack<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\u201cI loved this corset so much\u2014it was handmade for me. Not a lot of pieces were handmade, a lot of them were rented from an amazing costume warehouse, but all of Ellen’s clothes were handmade because she’s from the working class and wouldn’t have had as much range. This is in my trailer before I was going on to shoot some scenes with Louis Partridge and I had to capture the moment.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\nPhoto credit: Courtesy Niamh McCormack<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\u201cLouis Partridge [who plays Edward Guinness] was always strumming songs; he got really good. This was the same day as the ice cream truck, and he had changed into his normal clothes because it was so warm. A funny story about all of us: one of our first times hanging out, I think it was after the readthrough, it was me, Anto, Louis, and Fionn all in Louis\u2019s room. He asked, \u2018Niamh, can you sing?\u2019 and I said, \u2018Yeah.\u2019 So, we sang \u2018Linger\u2019 by the Cranberries; he was strumming away and I was singing, and we got a noise complaint from security! There was a knock at the door, and we opened it, and they said, \u2018You\u2019re being very loud and if you don\u2019t stop, you\u2019re going to get kicked out.\u2019 We had to be there for the next six months, and we didn\u2019t want to rub anyone the wrong way.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\nPhoto credit: Courtesy Niamh McCormack<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s special to have this, because this was from a day we were shooting an amazing scene that actually ended up cut from the show. It was me and all the lads, a very male-heavy day, but I really remember it because it\u2019s the day I got to know Jack Gleeson [who plays Byron Hedges]. We went for a walk, and I learned a lot about him\u2014he\u2019s big into poetry! This photo, though, is another chaotic moment.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\nPhoto credit: Courtesy Niamh McCormack<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\u201cI loved Ellen\u2019s costumes so much; they told such a story but were also so different from what the Guinness family members wore. I was just trying to capture this moment of my transformation while I was sitting in my trailer. I didn\u2019t keep any costumes\u2014I wish!\u2014but I did get to take some props, like letters that Ellen had written to Edward.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\nPhoto credit: Courtesy Niamh McCormack<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\u201cSeamus O\u2019Hara, who plays my brother, is a dear friend of mine. I think he\u2019h had a pretty rough day on set and was absolutely knackered. So, production ordered him a pizza to reward him and as you you see from his face, he’s just delighted with himself and with his pizza. He did share, so we all had a slice as well.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\nPhoto credit: Courtesy Niamh McCormack<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\u201cShooting the wedding sequence was one of the only times that we were all together on set. It was a long, long day but Anto just looks so fabulous with his wedding suit on, giving me the middle finger as he does so well.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\nPhoto credit: Courtesy Niamh McCormack<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\u201cAnother from the same day, with beautiful Danielle Galligan [Lady Olivia Hedges], who’s one of my great friends. It was her wedding on the show, and we were walking around when I said, \u2018I have to capture this moment.\u2019 We didn’t have any scenes together, so these two characters never interact in the show but we have that photo, which is beautiful.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\nPhoto credit: Courtesy Niamh McCormack<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\u201cThis scene was really hard for us to film because I\u2019m so close to Seamus and the makeup was so realistic. On this moment in between takes, I captured him looking bloody and beat-up, partly to remind myself that it wasn\u2019t real because it felt so real in the scene. Doesn\u2019t he look fucking amazing, though? What a face!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\nPhoto credit: Courtesy Niamh McCormack<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\u201cThis was the day we wrapped The House of Guinness<\/em> completely. Anto [Boyle] had ordered a Guinness truck<\/a> to come in and pour pints for everyone, so me and a few of the girls\u2014even though we were in normal clothes and not in costume\u2014came to set to have a pint with everyone in the makeup truck. It was a chaotic moment, so I\u2019m glad someone was able to capture it.\u201d<\/p>\nYou Might Also Like<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.yahoo.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Niamh McCormack had a feeling about The House of Guinness. When the actress, who plays the revolutionary Ellen Cochrane on the new series, first read the script, \u201cIt was kind of like a cosmic moment of feeling like, I think this is my story to tell,\u201d she says. The feeling wasn\u2019t wrong. McCormack landed the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2055698,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25172],"tags":[348114,382082,348115,348113,380374,343808,382426],"class_list":["post-2055697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-benjamin-guinness","tag-ellen-cochrane","tag-guinness-family","tag-house-of-guinness","tag-ice-cream-truck","tag-louis-partridge","tag-niamh-mccormack"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Go-Behind-the-Scenes-of-The-House-of-Guinness-with.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2055697","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2055697"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2055697\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2055698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2055697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2055697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2055697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}