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theartsdesk Q&A: actor Damien Molony on 'Bergerac', 'Two Weeks in August' and returning to the stage

Pamela Jahn |

Everyone knows Bergerac, or so you'd think. "I didn't", says Damien Molony. "I knew of the series, but it was only after I got the job that it dawned on me how big it was. I was at a wedding and people said to me, 'Damien, the car, the leather jacket, Jersey.'" Not least, John Nettles who, over the course of ten years, made the original archetypal "maverick cop" so iconic. The series ran successfully from 1981 until the early 1990s.

theartsdesk Q&A: actor George MacKay on his strange voyage in 'Rose of Nevada'

Pamela Jahn |

In Rose of Nevada, written and directed by Mark Jenkin, George MacKay plays Nick, a family man living in an impoverished present-day Cornish fishing village. He joins a trip on a once-lost trawler because he needs money to repair his roof.

theartsdesk Q&A: actor Lindsay Duncan on playing a gangster matriarch in 'Mint'

Pamela Jahn
Lindsay Duncan might be British acting royalty, yet her gangster matriarch Ollie in Charlotte Regan’s BBC drama series Mint is not what you'd call…

theartsdesk Q&A: actor Tahar Rahim on Sky Atlantic's 'Prisoner'

Adam Sweeting
Sky Atlantic’s new thriller, Prisoner, is a tense and twisty story involving a sinister crime syndicate called Pegasus, whose boss is a sneery tycoon…

theartsdesk Q&A: Mille Petrozza of thrash metal kingpins Kreator

Thomas H. Green
Mille Petrozza was born in 1967 to a Calabrian father, and a mother who was a refugee from Communist East Germany. He grew up in the Altenessen…

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theartsdesk Q&A: actor Damien Molony on 'Bergerac', 'Two Weeks in August' and returning to the stage

Pamela Jahn
The 'Bergerac' star discusses his detective skills, playing troubled men and taking on his first theatre role after a nine-year hiatus

theartsdesk Q&A: actor George MacKay on his strange voyage in 'Rose of Nevada'

Pamela Jahn
The 34-year-old actor drank a double dose of disorientation playing a man out of time in Mark Jenkin's ghost story

theartsdesk Q&A: actor Lindsay Duncan on playing a gangster matriarch in 'Mint'

Pamela Jahn
The Tony Award-winning star talks female power, sexism and becoming more Scottish with age

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