One click from danger... it’s Save Me Too
ACTOR Lennie James warns that “madness” lies in researching child disappearance cases online – a subject at the heart of his tv series Save Metoo.
The drama, written by the star, returns for a second season next week 17 months after the first series saw his character Nelly accused of kidnapping his estranged, missing, teenage daughter Jody.
Speaking from austin, texas, where he films Fear Of The walking Dead for seven months of the year, Lennie, 54, said: “I do research where I can. And the subject matter is at times difficult to research.
“I tend to look at articles that have already been written rather than put certain things into a search engine... because that way madness lies. It’s all from my imagination.”
In 2003 The who guitarist Petetownshend was arrested for accessing a child porn website. He did not download any images and was released on caution after insisting it was for research.
Lennie said: “I do other research.to pull together six hours of television you draw from different sources and also doing the second six I had the advantage of knowing who all the actors were and wrote to that.”
New cast member Lesley Manville plays Jennifer, the wife of Ade Edmondson’s character Gideon, who is tried for sexual exploitation in the second series.
Lennie revealed Nelly’s battered yellow puffa jacket almost got a makeover for the second series.
He said: “In the first episode of the series I got a birthday present of another yellow puffa. In a draft episode for the new series Nelly got another birthday present, but of a red puffa.
“The first comment I got back from Sky or the crew was like, ‘Are you an idiot?! It’s got to be a yellow puffa. Are you nuts?’.
“As Nelly says, he will keep wearing it until he finds Jody.”
● Save Me Too begins on Wednesday at 9pm on Sky Atlantic.