Line of Duty star Martin Compston appeared live on BBC’s The One Show on Wednesday
Line of Duty star Martin Compston has opened up about the return of the hit BBC series live on The One Show.
The Scottish actor appeared on the green sofa alongside Dame Helen Mirren and Lara Pulver on Wednesday (September 9). He spoke to hosts Alex Jones and Vernon Kay about his new series Living Las Vegas and the seventh series of Line of Duty.
During the show, Vernon asked: “Martin, you’ve got great chemistry with Vicky [McClure] and Adrian [Dunbar], as well, on Line of Duty. Has it always been like that?”
Martin replied: “I think with Vick, it was probably quite instant. We’re from similar backgrounds, I mean we’ve got the same birthday, you know. And just [our characters] as a team, we were together. And then, I don’t know anybody could have foreseen what Adrian [did] with Hastings and how he became such a huge part of the show,” reports the Mirror.
“So, I think that kind of eventually grew, but now, yeah, they’re two of my best pals rather than castmates. We speak pretty much if not on a daily, on a weekly basis.”
Martin then opened up about how their friendship has helped them through filming the upcoming series, which he described as “the hardest one” they’ve had to shoot. “It was a pretty brutal shoot,” he shared.
The actor explained that they’ve had to film a lot of interview scenes, which had been a “mental test”. “[We’re] really having to rely on each other when one of us is having a down day and just going, ‘I don’t know how I’m going to learn an 18-page scene in the next couple days,’” Martin went on.
“We’re just kind of there for each other and we always make sure we run [the scenes] and work. It’s a really good little support network.”
Martin then teased that the new episodes would mark “the end of the story arc” which has been building since the first series. He added: “Everything’s coming to a head and it’s pretty explosive.
“I think, as well, that’s one of the great things, the gaps we have in filming. Sometimes there’s this really bad habit with TV series and you get the first few scripts, and you go, ‘Oh, this is great.’ And you start filming and they haven’t written the ending, and then halfway through, you start reading the ending and you go, ‘Oh no.’
“But with this, it was fully formed. [At] our read through, we had the first five episodes, so we just had one to go. So, we knew exactly what Jed [Mercurio] wanted to do with it. Hopefully it’s going be everything [that] the fans wanted.”
As well as several other returning stars, the seventh season of Line of Duty is also set to welcome some fresh faces. Robert Carlyle has joined the cast as guest lead Detective Constable Shaun Massie.
He will also be joined by Tom Weston-Jones as Detective Inspector Dominic Gough, Laura Aikman as DC Paula Beckman, Levi Brown as DC Luke Tobin, and Amy-Leigh Hickman as DC Nira Rashid.
Line of Duty is available to stream on BBC iPlayer
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