TIM ROTH

9pm, Sky Atlantic

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My character, former detective Jim Worth, has returned to his old stomping ground of Liverpool from Canada to confront his past, along with his wife Angela and her daughter Anna. We barely had a permit to film in the streets so we had to just make it work – getting right in there with shoppers and people taking selfies.

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Workingin Liverpool gavemea genuine connection withmypast.my dad came to the city from Brooklyn, New York when he was a little boy and worked in brick factories from the age of 11. I often wondered, as I was out and about, which bricks he’d made and which of his I was perhaps now staring at.

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The Worths are on the attack in this third and final series, against a long list of enemies. We

used real weapons – guns which had been seized by the police. Needless to say they didn’t contain real bullets but the use of proper weaponry lent authenticity to the drama.

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Abigail Lawrie, who plays Anna, turned in an excellent performance of Stop by The Spice Girls at a drag club in the first episode of the new series, cheered on by support actors playing drag queens.

Thursday, Tim with Abigail Lawrie in Tin Star

There’s a flashback scene in which Genevieve O’reilly’s character Angela is chased to the edge of the roof of a ten-storey building, with ababyinherhands. Genevieve was attached by wires to stop her falling and although there was a stunt artist and the real baby wasn’t in the scenes close to the edge, it was terrifying for her and took a lot of courage.