Former UFC fighter Cathal Pendred has landed the lead role in Amazon’s small screen adaptation of Aaron Mahnke’s horror anthology podcast, Lore, which proclaims that: “sometimes the truth is more frightening than fiction.”
With an average six million monthly listens, it bares all the hallmarks of a massive TV hit.
The Dubliner, who also has Ray Donovan, Into The Badlands, Peaky Blinders and the soon-to-be-released Cardboard Gangsters on his rapidly expanding acting CV, will play real-life Irish folklore character, Michael Cleary, who becomes convinced that his wife, Bridget, has been replaced by a changeling.
He also features in My Name Is Lenny, the upcoming biopic of 1970s bare knuckle boxer, Lenny McClean, which includes Josh Helman, John Hurt and Michael Gambon among its heavyweight cast.