Stephen Graham reunites with Shane Meadows to play recovering alcoholic in gritty drama The Virtues

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STEPHEN Graham has reunited with Shane Meadows to play a recovering alcoholic in gritty drama The Virtues. The 45-year-old actor, who viewers most recently saw as John Corbett in Line Of Duty, prev…

, which starts this evening, Stephen plays Joe, a recovering alcoholic who has stopped drinking, but lost his family in the process.

Speaking about his character, Stephen said: “Joseph is trying to piece together what happened to him as a child, and slowly as he’s working out what’s going on and what did happen, all these images are flying up into his head, all these repressed memories that he had as a child.The Virtues is written by Shane MeadowsShane rose to fame directing This is England in 2006, and it was also Stephen's big break, playing the role of racist skinhead Combo in the Eighties drama.

"I had fragmented memories of something that happened to me as a kid. I wanted to confront the person who'd done it, but I knew that if at any stage of that conversation he smirked at me, I was probably going to jump over the table and bite something off his face.

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