On Friday night's Late Late Show, Amy Huberman joked about her and her husband's lack of knowledge of their respective fields, sports and the arts, saying they "do slag each other".
The actor and writer appeared on the RTÉ One chatshow alongside her Fran the Man co-star Deirdre O'Kane, where she told a few amusing anecdotes about her husband, former Ireland rugby captain Brian O'Driscoll.
When asked by host Patrick Kielty how she felt about being cast in a football movie, Huberman laughed: "I just don't know a lot about sport, even though I should at this stage!
"Sport was never really in our house growing up. I don't know a lot of football players."
She continued: "We were at this dinner a couple of years ago and we were chatting to different people and at the end of the night he asked, 'How did you get on?'
"I said, 'I had the loveliest night, I was chatting to the most gorgeous man. He manages a football team and Brian said, 'Does he really?'
"This guy was so self-deprecating, the way he was describing it, it was like he was coaching the local dads on the green on a Wednesday night!
"And I said [to him], 'Good for you, fair play to you'. He was so passionate about it, isn't that great?
"And Brian said, 'Yeah, he coaches Ireland. It's Martin O'Neill.'"
Huberman admitted that it "works both ways".
"We do slag each other. We were at the Galway Film Festival years ago and the late, great Peter O'Toole was there. He had heard Brian was in town and wanted to meet him," she said.
"We'd had a really late night and the only time we could meet Peter was half eight in the morning in Galway Square. We'd had about an hour's sleep and we went to meet him.
"It was such a lovely chat, he's such a lovely man and he was talking about his love of rugby and the joy it had given him over the years. There was a real reverence to it, he spoke so poetically. Then there was a pause and it was our turn to speak.
"We had recently watched this animated movie with the kids and of all the stage and film productions that Peter O'Toole had done, Brian was like, "I really liked you in Ratatouille."
Meanwhile, O'Kane laughed about the dynamic of working alongside her husband, Stephen Bradley, who directed Fran the Man. The couple also worked together on the 2014 drama Noble.
"He likes to cast me in things and he can say things to me," O'Kane explained.
"It's really interesting when I do work with Stephen, we've made a couple of things before, when we're on set he'll say things to me like, 'You - go and change now'.
Gesturing to Huberman, O'Kane added with a laugh: "Then I'll see him say, 'Are you ok Amy, would you like five more minutes? Would you like another take?'"
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