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VA: And qulte a few bis nanieś in lt as welł?

RA Yeah. yeah. great cast

VA: You werent all star struck. nwe you?

RA: I. L you know. first day of the read through walking into a room and seeing Sinead and Tim Piggott-Sniith. and Lesley Mamille. I did bave to kind of talk mysdf into a State of confidence; but. yeah. it was briUiant to work with all those people.

VA: Great character you played as we 11. John Thomton

RA: Oh. thank you.

VA: Is there any of you in binT

RA: Yeah. I think theres qmte a lot of me in lnm. I. obuously thats what brings an actor to a part and is the relationship that you have with the character. and I guess there s. you know. there's a lot of him that isnt like me but there s as much of him that is.

VA: Having a part hke that as we 11. you know. it sot a lot of followers. there s a lot of people watching. it must change yotu working life and how you re perceived by a lot of people from there on. Do you get woik a little easier now^

RA: I get sonie. I've. I've had mcer scnpts to read and piobably a few morę of them. Ifs early days yet. I think. to. to answer that but. yeah. I m working and I m busy. which is a bnlliam thmg...yeah

VA: Not womed at all about being typecast perhaps in penod dramas because. of course. you also appeared in Malice Afoiethought. wlnch is being scieened this week. Another penod drama?

RA Yeah. I. I...do you know what’ It wouldn t wony me at all to be typecast in period drama. I really en-joyed doing it I mean. I guess after too many of them then I'U be able to say. yeah. I want to do something contemporaiy now but. I m. my next project is contem-porary. so u iooks like there s going to be quite a lot of contrast

VA: Oh. what is it. can you tell us?

RA Yeah. ifs called The Golden Hour and ifs about the helicopter eraergency medical semces which opeiate from UTntechapel in London, and they are a traiuna team that kind of fly to extreme accidents by hehcoptei and. you know. save a lot of lives So. start medical traimng next week for that

VA: Because you do go that one step fuithei. don t you’

Because for the role in Cold Feel did you do aqua aerobics or something like that?

RA: (laughs) Yeah

VA: Is that tnie"¹

R.\: (laughs) Yeah. no that's tnie. I, it kind of changed throughout the course of the scnpt because it staited