Sam Keeley on Transforming Into ‘Task’ Biker Leader and His Journey From Ireland to Stardom

Sam Keeley has kept his head down during most of the run of “Task,” the hit HBO series in which he stars, as he’s been busy at work on another project. But the success of the show has followed him. “I’m on set most of the time, so I get up very early and I work all day and then I eat and go back to sleep, rinse and repeat, and it’s been like that since the show came out. But I’m feeling that love off people,” he says, over a Zoom call from his home in Reykjavik. “Some people have even approached me in the hotel I was staying at recently who had watched it. For an actor, you can’t ask for anything more. It’s a dream job with a dream reception, so it’s been incredible.” The series was created and written by “Mare of Easttown” creator Brad Ingelsby and follows Mark Ruffalo as an FBI agent outside Philadelphia who is in charge of a task force investigating a series of robberies tied to a local motorcycle gang. Keeley plays Jayson, the leader of the gang, the show’s most obvious villain. He’d originally read for another role and didn’t get the

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