Aisling Franciosi Gets Confrontational

Aisling Franciosi was about three weeks into shooting when the need for ABBA became evident. From there followed weekly “epic” weekend parties in the remote part of Tasmania where she and the rest of the cast for “The Nightingale,” the harrowing colonial-era drama that opens today, were stationed for six months, with Franciosi manning the DJ job. “I made a seven-hour playlist with a couple of requests from people,” she says in her light Irish accent. “I’d go around and be like, ‘What’s your request?’ It ranged from one end of the spectrum, like ABBA, to Drake, to some dubstep.” Franciosi, who moved to New York last October, grew up mostly in Dublin, the daughter of an Irish mother and an Italian father. At age six she took an acting class, came home and proclaimed to her parents she was going to be an actor. “And I literally never wavered from that ever,” she says. She enrolled at Trinity College in Dublin to study French and Spanish, where she juggled acting projects for three and a half years before leaving, about six years ago, for the BBC One project “Quirke.” Franciosi has been acting professionally ever since, with parts on “The Fall” and a

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