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RIPPER STREET STAR BEHIND THE WHEEL MOVIE
He’s about to return to TV screens with the new series of Ripper Street, playing the real- l ife Inspector Frederick Abberline who led the hunt for Jack the Ripper. The Fife actor has also just finished making The Hatton Garden Job about the £14million hole in the wall jewellery heist last year. Clive, 70, shot on location at the scene of the audacious robbery with a cast that includes Larry Lamb and Phil Daniels. He said: “I play the driver so I didn’t get to do all the scenes where they cut through concrete. “We did a night shoot outside the place where they did the robbery and the director had been in and it was left as it was a f t er the pol ic e finished their inquiry. “The boxes are still scattered over the f loor. Apparently somebody is thinking of turning it into a tourist attraction.” Tour companies also cash on London’s most infamous serial killer, Jack the Ripper, and public fascination with him hasn’t done Ripper Street any harm.
Set initially six months after the first murders, its hero is Detective Inspector Edmund Reid, played by Matthew Macfadyen.
The real Reid was in charge of the inquiries into the first two murders before Inspector Abberline was sent to take over.
In the series, Clive’s Abberline is an occasional mentor to the troubled Reid but he hasn’t based his performance on the real detective.
He said: “It’s not a documentary and it’s not that rooted in reality.
“It takes the story and uses it for something else which is good and clever.
“The case is intriguing because it has such an effect on Victorian society in the same way the Yorkshire Ripper did in the 1970s.
“There’s a resonance about horror