The crime show costars Imelda Staunton.
, which premieres on BritBox, May 12. In this based-on-real-events crime show, Freeman plays Detective Superintendent Steve Fulcher, an actual British policeman who was forced to resign after abandoning procedure while investigating the disappearance of a 22-year-old woman.
"He’s not a policeman who wants to go back to the bad old days," says Freeman, whose costars on the show include. "He’s not kicking doors in and throwing people in the back of a van. He didn’t dot an i and cross a t on a particularly extreme situation. He's the kind of copper I want if someone from my family goes missing, frankly."— and tells us what TV shows he's been watching during lockdown.MARTIN FREEMAN: No, I wasn’t actually.
We’re so used to seeing fictional policemen with all these quirks — it was fascinating to see one who has a really important job but who goes about it in this “normal” fashion. Yeah, absolutely. That was something that we really wanted, not to have it with car chases and explosions and everything. Sometimes enormous things can happen in a very everyday way. So that was what we wanted to capture really and bring a sort of docu-style to it. Because if you present the audience with what happened, that’s enough, in this case.
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