Name: 理查德-阿米蒂奇採訪Spooks (Richard Armitage interview about Spooks)
Uploaded: 2021-01-14T05:30:53.000Z
Duration: 10 min 37 s
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Yeah it's been a very interesting journey again.

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They've brought in some brilliant characters for us to to play this year --

Simon Russell Beale as the new Home Secretary.

Iain Glen as Vaughn Edwards who's a ghost from Lucas' past.

We've explored Lucas' past quite a lot in Spooks

to when he was a snip of a boy in his early 20's

as was a character called Maya Lahan who's played by Laila Rouass.

and that's what  kicks off Lucas' journey through series 9.

Ros' funeral should I say -- at the beginning of episode one.

Yeah, yeah.  I mean we all really miss her

because she was such good fun to work with

and such a dry sense of humor that we miss her, a lot.

"Okay if I join this series, I'll only do it if they kill this character in a really good way."

Because I think it is kind of a Spooks trademark.

I think when Lisa Faulkner got her head put into the chip fryer in episode 2 of the first series

it was so shocking because you didn't expect a character like that to go so quickly

They'll take a character away  when you least expect it.

And the way that it's done is crucial as well because

and violence for violence's sake never quite rocks you in a way that --

you know when violence really hurts, and I don't mean physically

I mean when it really kind of affects you -- it kind of shakes you a bit.

I think Alex Lanipekun when that character was ...

in the last series that was the one that really shocked me.

The way that it was done, who it was done by.

But I have asked them to really think about a death

that wouldn't necessarily be a violent death.

I quite like the idea of a non-violent death.  I've thought about it.

Because that's kind of a personal fear for me.

So yeah, I don't know, something kind of peaceful I suppose.

It's one of the deals I did with them at the beginning.

because they do like to bring you in and say

And I say  do with the character the best thing that you want to do

So I still don't know if he's going to be around for series 10.

This thing that comes in from the past starts to peel back layers

But we get much deeper and we start to find out who he really is

we are designed as spies to inhabit other people.

I think in episode 4 or 5, I give Beth and Dimitri two boxes

And I think  the characters are very skilled actors

and so even though we feel we know the characters

So we start to question that and who's hiding what

and who are these people, and who is Lucas really?

Because he's a master.  His skills are all about deception.

It's interesting because I didn't realize he was

until the writers presented me with the script

and then you realize that Lucas has never had Harry's trust.

He's always really wanted it badly and he's never got it.

And he sort of gets it because Harry promotes him to the Head of Section.

And there's something about Ros as well, the way that Ros used to look at Lucas.

She never quite trusted him.  But he didn't know why.

Exactly what we've been talking about. The fact that all of the characters live on a knife edge in a way.

I think the ticking bomb every week is crucial to driving individual episodes along.

But watching the characters forge these relationships based on a foundation that can crack at any moment.

These characters put themselves out there and in a way are prepared to give their life for their country on a daily basis.

I don't know that that's what they really do at MI-5.  Possibly not.

But that's what we do in the dramatic terms.

And I think that that strengthens their relationships to each other because they realize that life is so transient.

Tomorrow I could go into a factory and have my head put into a chip fryer.

But I think that's what keeps Spooks alive because you know that no character is ever safe.

I found the stuff in episode 4 of the last series with this character Darshavin

where I had to go back into the Russian prison and re-live this moment where he took himself to the point of hanging himself.

I found that quite challenging because it was just a stage direction:  Lucas considers hanging himself.

Then the director put a camera in a room and said, "Okay, you take as much time as you like. You find your way onto a chair and put your head in a noose."

That was really difficult because it's not just a question of standing on a chair and putting your head in a noose.

It's  psychologically how  does a character get to that point in the room?

The three minutes before someone's going to do something as shocking as that, what's going through their mind?

And I had to try and achieve that. So that was a big challenge.

From an outside point of view, there was a brilliant shoot-out in the episode when we were pursuing Connie

And there was a shoot-out in the street which involved Ros and Harry.

And Harry rarely gets off the Grid so it was brilliant to play that action sequence.