'A Touch Of
Cloth' star John Hannah: 'I'm bored of cop shows'
John Hannah
has insisted that he is not worried about spoofing cop shows in Sky1's A Touch
of Cloth.
The comedy -
penned by Charlie Brooker - stars Hannah as tortured DI Jack Cloth and Suranne
Jones as his partner DC Anne Oldman.
"I'm
pretty bored - probably more bored than most of the audience - with procedural
cop shows," the Scottish actor told Digital Spy. "And doctor shows
which are really cop shows, but they're talking about diseases rather than
killers or bank robbers.
"It's
all the same procedural dullness. [This series] is actually what needs to be
done, so it was a no-brainer."
A Touch of
Cloth creator Brooker added that it was always "very much" his
intention to cast actors whom fans of UK crime drama might recognise.
"Part of
the joke is that if you switched it on and just stumbled into it - and maybe
the sound was off - you'd think you were watching the real deal," the
writer explained.
"With
John Hannah and Suranne Jones at the core, you've got two very credible actors
who you would associate with blue-chip drama."
A Touch of Cloth
debuts on Sky1 on Sunday, August 26 at 9pm. Two follow-up instalments have been
ordered, with Doctor Who star Karen Gillan cast in the third edition.
Other interviews
with John about A Touch of Cloth can be read at Scotsman and What's On TV
John Hannah's
hard core homecoming
John Hannah
has admitted how much he enjoyed being back with "serious hard core
Jocks" making his latest film in Scotland.
The star of
Spartacus and Four Weddings And A Funeral stars in hard-hitting drama The Wee
Man, based on the life of real-life former Scottish gangster Paul Ferris.
John said:
"It's a gangster film but not in the mould of a British gangster film with
Cockneys. It's a period piece. I thought it was a good script, I hadn't done
anything in Scotland for a long time.
"It was
kind of cool to be back with a whole bunch of serious hard core Jocks,
y'know?"
The Scottish
actor - who has starred in detective shows McCallum and Cold Blood - next
appears with Suranne Jones in Charlie Brooker's spoof cop show A Touch Of
Cloth.
"Before
I read the script my thought was, 'Oh... another detective show...' but I got
the script and it was just a hoot," he said.
"It was
quite tricky not to laugh sometimes because we were doing stuff which was just
so insane.
"There
was a bit with Suranne where we look at each other and it goes on a bit too
long, turning into one of those moments where you're like, 'Are we going to kiss?'
That was quite hard."
A Touch Of
Cloth begins on Sky Atlantic on Sunday, August 26.
Source: UKPA
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