 Gilgun said that replacing Sheehan had "been frightening... You'd think that it'd be a total ballache, what with being new and stuff and Rob doing such a good job".In the following years, Gilgun appeared in the 2012 American science fiction film "Lockout", co-written and produced by Luc Besson and starring Guy Pearce, the 2013 BBC series "Ripper Street" as a Fagin-type character, Carmichael, as well as starring in the final two series of "Misfits".He appears in the music video for "Tiny Legs" by Then Thickens, released in 2014.