Rex Ryan

It's not the cage.

Yeah, I think they were totally accepted.

From what I saw.

Again, I wasn't so close to a lot of them.

But from what I saw, it was never really an issue.

And it was certainly not an issue in...

In my family.

There was never really a conversation about that.

I don't know... I don't know...

I don't know why, but it seemed to never be a factor.

Now, I grew up in a family where there were a lot of interesting cats coming through, you know?

So things that some people might consider outrageous were not.

And I think, I hope, I was raised to have understanding and also to not judge people

by what other people tell you, specifically the media.

I was really aware and not being involved, I was surprised how much it was on my mind and it affected me.

I thought it was a tragedy and I thought it was outrageous.

It was at a time in my life, Niall, I suppose, for the crime world audience, they won't know maybe a lot of them, but I run a theatre and I'm a writer and an actor and a director, mostly in the theatre.

So I'd been working in the theatre at that point for about six, seven years.

I'd staged a lot of plays, acted all over here in Dublin, Ireland and Europe.

And I'd written and created a lot of things.