He wanted to be like me as a teenager. So it was quite strange to me, – Mark says.
Mark inherited his musical talent, and after finishing school, he entered the BIMM Music College in Dublin, where he mastered several musical instruments.
We have different tastes in music. Ferdia enjoys folk, and I am fond of pop music of the 1980s. But Carney [a former Irish rock bassist] had written the songs before he met us, – McKenna says.
The movie had received many rave reviews and high ratings, and it was later nominated for the Golden Globe Award. However, the musical La La Land (directed by Damien Chazelle) with I had been at the theaters, and I was not drawn to this area. I knew exactly what I wanted to do, – Mark says.
Soon, the actor went to Hollywood to play a small role in the military horror movie Overlord by Julius Avery. It was produced by J. J. Abrams, a scriptwriter or producer of such movies as Armageddon (1998), Cloverfield (2008), Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015), etc. The movie tells about the American soldiers who have discovered the secret experiments of the Nazis behind enemy lines in Normandy. Wyatt Russell (the son of actors Kurt Russell and Goldie Hawn), Saw Asbek (Euron Greyjoy in the TV series Game of Thrones), John Magaro, Jovan Adepo, and others also starred in the movies.