Primeval star Ciaran McMenamin has compared his character Matt to fictional government agent James Bond.
The Northern Irish actor joined the show for it’s fourth series and told Total Sci-Fi that he hopes to combine “Roger Moore’s acting with Daniel Craig’s physicality” in the role.
“There are times [during filming] when you stand looking at nothing, or a tennis ball, and deliver a kind of tongue-in-cheek line,” he explained. “You’ve got to remind yourself of the audience, because what you’re making is heightened reality.”
McMenamin admitted that he had at times struggled with the style of the show and his character.
“I’ve found myself a few times on the verge of turning round to the director and saying, ‘I can’t say that!’” he confessed. “And then you go, ‘Yes I can, because it’s the style of the show’. You’ve just got to remind yourself what you’re doing.”
He also enjoyed filming the fifth episode of the series and teased that it will include “a pretty full-on fight sequence”.
“It’s brilliant [and] it’s quite brutal,” he said. “The physicality [of the role] has been challenging in a good way.”
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