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The big reveal is in one of the very first scenes ... you think do you go from here?’

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OW would you react if your whole world was turned on its head in an instant? That’s exactly what happens to Adam Price, a happily married father of two, whose charmed existence is rocked to the core after a shock revelation.

Neftflix’s The Stranger reunites the team behind the hit series Safe, having been adapted by Danny Brocklehur­st from the novel by Harlan Coben.

Richard Armitage, 48, takes the lead in the psychologi­cal thriller.

What else can The Hobbit actor tell us about the show?

I PLAY a character called Adam Price who’s a successful lawyer, family man, a dad and a husband.

They are a pretty aspiration­al family and their existence is happy.

They are heavily scheduled with their lives and I feel like sometimes they pass like ships in the night but it’s a good life, they function well and it’s a very modern family.

The household is balanced, and mum and dad take equal roles, they drive nice cars, have a beautiful house and then The Stranger (played by Hannah John-Kamen) sidles up to Adam at the football club and drops a bombshell on him.

The makers of mystery drama, Safe, are back with a new Netflix thriller in The Stranger. Lead actor Richard Armitage tells more a man or a woman who feels like you, Adam and Corrine (played in an extraordin­ary and by Dervla Kirwan) met. escalating situation. That found its way into There were elements of a speech at the end of Gone Girl in our story the story, so it was all and I thought, ‘Oh this connected to real events is really thrilling, this is that I’d created and drawn an ordinary life that on my own experience­s to put under the surface has in there. become extraordin­ary’. about that at all. It’s about finding out where she’s gone and why.

I hope that the audience are sitting on the edge of their seats trying to find Corinne as much as Adam is.

I DO feel like certain networks have always had their brand identity, and actually it’s a much more open field with Netflix; you never hear that thing of, ‘We can’t really do that because it’s not a Netflix thing’ – anything goes really, which feels much more fertile.

It’s just letting the content speak for it and being prepared to take on something unexpected.

 ??  ?? Richard as Thorin Oakenshiel­d in The Hobbit: The Battle Of The Five Armies
Finally, working with Netflix, did you feel a sense of creative freedom?
The Stranger launches on Netflix on Thursday.
Richard Armitage says he hopes viewers are on the edge of their seat watching
The Stranger
Richard as Thorin Oakenshiel­d in The Hobbit: The Battle Of The Five Armies Finally, working with Netflix, did you feel a sense of creative freedom? The Stranger launches on Netflix on Thursday. Richard Armitage says he hopes viewers are on the edge of their seat watching The Stranger
 ??  ?? What’s Adam’s reaction to his encounter with The Stranger?
What’s Adam’s reaction to his encounter with The Stranger?
 ??  ?? Hannah John-Kamen plays The Stranger
How did you prepare yourself for the role?
Hannah John-Kamen plays The Stranger How did you prepare yourself for the role?

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