With Knives Out, Daryl McCormack has made the cut

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Daryl McCormack won’t easily forget his first leading role. “It was like, OK, for your first lead, you’re gonna just do a two-hander with Oscar-winner Emma Thompson,” says the 32-year-old Irish actor. He was cast in 2022’s Good Luck to You, Leo Grande, playing a sympathetic sex worker. It was, he admits, a “baptism of fire”. 

Thankfully he put on a good…