Grantchester is currently delighting fans with its tenth season on ITV1 and ITVX
Grantchester star Robson Green has made an emotional admission after being “in a lot of trouble”.
The beloved detective drama returned to ITV earlier this month for its tenth series.
The British crime drama was first broadcast in 2014 and followed Anglican vicar Sidney Chambers (James Norton), who investigated a series of mysterious wrongdoings in his small Cambridgeshire village. Sidney undertook his sleuthing adventures alongside Detective Inspector Geordie Keating, played by Robson.
Geordie has partnered with several vicars over the years, including Reverend Will Davenport (Tom Brittney), and most recently, Alphy Kottaram (Rishi Nair).
Alphy and Geordie have been delighting fans with their return to screens for season ten, before the eleventh and final season airs sometime next year. Ahead of Grantchester coming to an end, lead star Robson shared how much the show has meant to him, and how landing the role of Geordie made him a “better person”.
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Speaking to press last month, the actor explained: “It’s the one that always, when I look [producer] Emma Kingsman-Lloyd in the eye, we just go… Truth be told, I was in a lot of trouble when I was filming in Thailand [before Grantchester]… There was an accident on set and were weren’t going to be paid.
“So, I was kind of struggling on many levels, and I got a phone call from my agent, saying, ‘Emma Kingsman-Lloyd wants to speak to you. She’s got this project called Grantchester, written by Daisy Coulam.’ I went, ‘Great, I need something. I need something to hold onto here.’”
Robson continued: ” I got the script, and with the first ten pages, because of my state of mind of what was going on in my life, I found comfort in reading this, and I saw it immediately – I saw myself in it. Even though in the books, I look nothing like James Runcie’s creation. Thank goodness that Daisy saw Geordie as me.
“But then I did a Skype call with Emma… I just remember talking to [her] about the project, the character, the relationship and where the storylines could possibly go. All the relations were tested by crime, the worst crime of all, light and dark murder.”
Reflecting on his final scenes, which he shot last year, Robson shared: “In that final series, that final take, I just said a few words to everybody [about] how beautiful the experience has been. And then I just looked at Emma, and I just went back to that joyous day when she called me and basically gave me an opportunity that has been my road to Damascus. It’s made me a better person.
“I just broke, it was beautiful… This beautiful family that, as a unit, you may never see again. You probably won’t ever see all those faces in one space ever again, and that was a beautiful moment. That was the highlight for me.”
He concluded: “With Grantchester, nothing really ends, not really. The River Cam will keep flowing, the swans will keep swimming. And if you’re in Cambridge and you look hard enough, you might find two old men at the bar – an ex-copper and a vicar – having a warm pint and putting the world to rights.”
Tonight’s (Wednesday, January 21) episode of Grantchester will see Alphy and Geordie investigate witchcraft at a foundling home, run by an old friend of the vicar’s.
But when a body is found, Alphy struggles to consider his friend as a suspect. Will Alphy and Geordie get to the bottom of the mystery?
Grantchester is available to stream on ITVX
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