‘I’ve hit my midlife sexpot era!’ Romola Garai on marital misery, cheating … and sex scenes in cars
Layby hookups are all in a day’s work for Romola Garai in her steamy new drama Adultery. She talks faking orgasms, keeping secrets – and making audiences pass outIn a raging storm in the Peak District last winter, a blue Toyota Yaris was parked in a…
Medical dramas on television and in real life | Letter
John Fisher recalls meeting a Casualty actor offering medical assistance to a passenger on a planeRe Adrian Chiles’s article on TV medical dramas (I have a new favourite medical drama – and now I want to have a nasty accident in Pittsburgh, 30…
Fangs a million: Lenny Rush on turning an Eric Morecambe classic into a hilarious vampire comedy
He won a Bafta while only a teen, and now he’s the lead in a creepy sitcom adapted by Alan Partridge’s writers. Ahead of The Reluctant Vampire, he talks mates, mums who write him letters – and his love of David BrentOnly when absolutely badgered will…
Blue Lights review – TV’s most thrilling cop show turns up the heat
This Northern Ireland-set police drama has never felt like this before … Race riots, organised crime and institutional politics bring it bang up to dateBlue Lights has always been a very modern cop drama. Its tales of everyday callouts, fractious office…
‘My husband has to remind me: You’re not a real cop!’ Siân Brooke on the perils of playing a tough Blue Lights ‘peeler’
She lit up Sherlock, made a brutal exit from House of the Dragon and now she’s back in the hard-hitting Belfast-set police drama. Will she have to stuff a chopping board into her flak jacket this time round?Sharp eyes save lives. That’s the mantra of the…
Amelia Bullmore: ‘I met my husband doing Romeo and Juliet. We weren’t the leads – it wasn’t that tidy’
The actor on getting caught gossiping, the footballer she has a crush on, and having both her best and worst kiss in one nightBorn in London, Amelia Bullmore, 62, studied drama at Manchester University. In 1990, she became a regular on Coronation Street…
‘I’d strip for £100!’ Dominic West and Sienna Miller on nudity, narcissism and their juicy new show War
The stars are no strangers to public scrutiny of their most intimate relationships – but they’ve never experienced anything like this. They talk about playing a famous divorcing couple, and how money makes things revoltingIn a London hotel room, Dominic…
‘My first screen kiss was in a cowshed!’ Lesley Manville on her greatest roles – and why sex scenes for over-50s are booming
In the last 15 years, she has gone from respected actor to stratospheric, garlanded star. Now she is back on TV as a chic sleuth in a racy car – despite being terrible at guessing whodunnitIt is high summer and, while Lesley Manville may be suffering a…