Acceptable Risk stars happy to skip nude scenes
THE female stars of the new detective drama Acceptable Risk have said they were happy to keep their clothes on for the whole series, unlike many TV shows.
In the six-part thriller series, Angeline Ball plays a detective looking into the murder in Montreal of an Irish-based businessman, while Elaine Cassidy, left, plays the grieving widow back home.
Wicklow star Elaine, 37, a mother of two who was in the popular series The Paradise, Harper’s Island and No Offence, said: ‘As you get older, you think, do you really need it (nudity)?
‘For me, like anything, it has to be there for a reason. If you are doing a play and the nudity is there to show vulnerability, if it’s there for a reason, okay. But if it’s there for titillation, forget it. Go on the top shelf and get your titillation there, I ain’t gonna be it. There has to be a reason for it.
‘Sarah Miles in Ryan’s Daughter – that sex scene is so powerful and all you see is her face. The imagination is more powerful than seeing.
‘In any horror film, how many times do you see monsters? You don’t, it’s the suspense.’
RTÉ has great hopes for Acceptable Risk, which begins tonight. It also stars Danish star Morten Suurballe, who played the police chief in The Killing and also appeared in The Bridge.
Also appearing are Lisa Dwyer Hogg, from The Fall, Catherine Walker (The Clinic, Versailles) and comedian Risteard Cooper in a straight dramatic role.
The action begins when Lee Manning (Paul Popowich), a top executive for a multinational pharmaceutical company, travels to Canada for a business meeting.
But he is shot and dumped in the middle of the red-light area. His devastated wife, who lost her first husband when he apparently drunkenly fell in a canal, is left to break the news to their two children.
Angeline Ball plays Detective Sergeant Emer Byrne, who is convinced that the widow Sarah is not quite as innocent as she seems.