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"I was surprised at how normal and low-key he [McGregor] was as a person. I don't know why I expected the cartoon character but he was lovely. "He was a very normal, funny guy... he got what was going on and why. There are levels and levels and levels to him."As for the criticism his story received from many in Ireland, Thompson dismissed some slights from 'the Dublin Twitterati' and recounted how he was dragged into a dispute that could have had nasty consequences.
"Meanwhile, as that's going on, I'm getting messages from Crumlin - the neighbourhood where McGregor is from - freaking out that the story is going to get their family targeted. "Literally, at one point, I am on a conference call with Conor's agent and someone from Dublin who is freaking out that, because of the story, Dublin gangland violence is somehow going to touch them or their family."Sounds like quite the conference call.
Asked if he ever, at any stage of his trip to Dublin, feared for his safety, Thompson says no but he does recall one sketchy house that he was 'ready to get out of'.
Perhaps the only flawed logic of Thompson's, in his follow-up interview, is the notion that McGregor is remarkable because he was not known to local gardaí in Crumlin. The author took it as noble that McGregor never got involved in crime even when times were tough.
There is nothing remarkable about it. Just ask the thousands of other
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