Turns the hunt on its head
elements that reflect real life. It’s never all laughs, or all drama or all thriller on a daily basis.you’re constantly moving between them.the twists and turns inwe Hunttogether are reflective of the chaotic lifestyle that Freddy and Baba have. I also think you need comedy within the police aspect. I’m sure within any of those services there’s going to be comedy and lightness.”
MYLES, 41, is a familiar face, finding fame as Gwen Cooper in four series oftorchwood alongside John Barrowman. After appearances in Little Dorrit and Merlin, she played in the title role in Frankie, a well-received drama about a district nurse.
Corfield, 26, is best known for starring alongsidetom Cruise in Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation. She also had a turn in the short-lived ITV hotel drama Halcyon.
Eve believes the “hunted” and the “hunters” works to great effect. “It’s kind of a new thing.we see the serial killers make the decision to do what they do within the first scene and then follow their journey. This means it’s not about who did it, but why and how they came about doing what they did.why that combination works is because they work together.
“Then you have detectives Lola and Jackson who are the absolute antithesis of each other, bounce off each other’s almost hatred for, and lack of patience with, each other. It’s a study of relationships.there’s a strong magnetic attraction between both couples and I think it is to fix one another and, in a strange kind of way, they do fix each other.”
But there’s a deeper reason why people will like it, she thinks. “You like things that you’re not meant to like.you’ll be intrigued by things you should have closed your eyes to and yet you’ll come back for more.you may fall in love with these people, you may hate them, but you’ll certainly come back and want to see more of them.” (No spoilers but that’s certainly the case when something horrific happens to ex-eastenders guest star Nigel Harman.)
All four characters have surprising similarities. “They’re all completely lost.they all do bad things, but they do loving things too.they also look out for one another and protect one another. However, they continue to do bad things and make mistakes.”
and her new friend Baba have the baddest vibe. Indeed, Freddy could have been taught by Killing Eve’s Villanelle, such is her wickedness. “I hope that people will care about Freddy and Baba as a couple as well as them as two murderers,” says Hermione.
“They meet in quite strange circumstances in an alleyway. Baba immediately becomes Freddy’s protector and that sets the tone for the rest of the series. He’s her protector and her heavyweight as well as being her lover and her soulmate.
“There’s also a moment in that first meeting where she takes his arm and says ‘no’, and I think that sets the dynamic for her being in control. I also think that she’s been one of the first people he’s been able to speak to about all the violence in his past because she’s not shocked by his stories.”
For Eve, “damage” is a big theme. “It’s at the forefront of everybody. We’re all damaged in some sort of way in life, and it’s about how we manage that, how we cope with that. Lola’s very straight-talking, tough, some would say cold, some would say damaged, I kind of sway to both of them.
“Overall, the four of them are very damaged in different ways. Jackson and Lola act very much in the moment
whereas Freddy and
Baba are very prepared and forward thinking.”
No crime drama arrives without some influence from the past. For Eve, it’s her favourite duo, Cagney & Lacey. “Much likewe Hunttogether, it wasn’t about the crime or the plot. Instead it’s about relationships for both parties. That’s what is so attractive about this project.
“Crime drama is a classic example of when you are in a car crash and the first thing that somebody says to you is, ‘Get out and don’t look behind you’. The first thing that we do, as human beings, is that sick thing of looking behind us to see what’s happened because it’s in our DNA.WE are a curious species.”
● We Hunt Together, Alibi, Wednesday, 10pm