For Vicky McClure, catching Line Of Duty ’s bent coppers and defusing bombs as Trigger Point’s Lana Washington is all in a day’s work. So for her latest role, she is stepping outside of her comfort zone – by playing an office worker. “I wanted to wear five-inch heels,” she laughs.
Terrified that she is becoming like her estranged mother, who suffered a violent psychotic breakdown at the same age, Emma tries to hold her life together while confronting her traumatic past. “There are a lot of complications that come back to haunt Emma,” Vicky says. “There’s a massive story there and you see as the series unravels, it just gets worse.”
Getting Vicky on board was a dream come true for writer Sarah Pinborough, whose screenplay is based on her book of the same name. She says, “I thought, ‘Christ – I put her in a pond in the middle of the night!’ But I couldn’t wait to tell people that I had Line Of Duty’s Vicky McClure in my show.” Thankfully, turning 40 is where Vicky and her character Emma’s similarities end. “I’m very lucky because I have a great relationship with my mother. She’s my everything,” she says. “I’ve never suffered with insomnia, but even just a bad night’s sleep or missing a few hours can take you off kilter – and Emma’s issues are beyond off kilter.”
Working on a relaxed set also helped. “We had six or seven weeks in the house which became Emma’s family home. The crew would be like, ‘Where’s Vicky? In bed?’ I figured I might as well use the bedroom as my own,” she says. “It felt like a very safe place to get into character.”
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