4. What insight do we get to Chris in the therapy sessions? He deals with a lot of people who are forgotten, neglected or ignored and that has to have an effect on him. That gallows sense of humour is prevalent across all the emergency services where responders are dealing with life and death situations. There are a lot of mental health issues, homelessness, addiction, violence and a lot of humour as well. People like Chris are called into situations that are not going to play out well and that tension has to build up somehow. Having said that, he can also be cruel too. He wants to take people like Casey - a street kid with a heroin addiction - under his wing and if he can help her, he will. They’ve just got caught up in either their addictions or thieving or whatever their vice is.Ĭhris is quite a softie really and wants them to be OK and get by. His contacts Casey ( Emily Fairn) and Marco ( Josh Finan) are just trying to make their way through any means they can. Coming from where I come from, you have to earn your stripes no matter where you are and you just can't be doing a bad Liverpool accent.ģ. What sort of world does Chris find himself being drawn into?Ĭhris knows his own city and is familiar with his beat so he has gotten to know lots of the characters he relies on for local information.
I'd get taken to the cleaners and rightly so. I worked really hard at it because there was no way I was prepared to go on telly doing a terrible Scouse accent in Liverpool with a load of 25 Liverpudlian actors. I was really pleased when I heard that some of the Scouse actors asked if I was from Merseyside – it was like I’d passed some sort of test. I would just have done my own version of my own voice. I also knew that if I couldn't do it properly then I wouldn't do the accent. He always said to me that the character didn’t have to be from Liverpool – that not all coppers in Merseyside are from Merseyside but I really felt Chris had to be from the city. It read pure Liverpudlian to me and I knew Tony was from Liverpool. I haven't played a character with a Scouse accent before and I was incredibly mindful of that when I was reading the script. How did you find playing Chris with a Scouse accent?
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