Summer of 59
ROBSON GREEN AND TOM BRITTNEY REVEAL WHAT’S NEXT FOR THEIR INVESTIGATIVE ALTER EGOS AS WE MAKE A WELCOME RETURN TO GRANTCHESTER...
As hit crime drama Grantchester returns to our screens for a new series, DI Geordie Keating and his unlikely assistant Reverend Will Davenport are enjoying the long, hot summer of 1959 in the Cambridgeshire village. Here, Robson Green and Tom Brittney, who play the detective duo, explain where their respective characters are at…
“Geordie is detached from Cathy and the kids, and living with Will at the vicarage, feeling like a fish out of water,” reveals Robson. “The one person Geordie seeks advice from, who he shouldn’t, is Will! So there’s a funny irony being played out.”
“Will is happy in his work, but wants some excitement,” shares Tom. “He introduces Geordie to the underground world of jazz clubs, and there, Will meets someone who changes his life in a lot of ways – both good and bad…”
While the pair’s complicated love lives continue, one of Will’s many brides-to-be, Adele Fitzgerald, comes into play after a dead man is discovered in the grounds of the declining Fitzgerald Estate, where she lives with her spinster sister, Maude.
The body is identified as their errant brother, Lord Edmund, but in viewing the unexplained death as murder, Will and Geordie clash with the latter’s new boss, DCI Wallace. And conflict is just one of the many themes dissected across the latest series…
“I think the question of ‘true love’ is explored,” reckons Robson. “It also looks at secrets and lies: a situation occurs with Mrs C that completely pulls the rug from under everyone’s feet.”
“Yes, Mrs C receives news that tests her own faith and the way she looks at those around her,” concurs Tom. “There are a lot of secrets that surface.”
For this latest series, Tom also went behind the camera to direct one of the episodes, an opportunity he relished...
THERE ARE A LOT OF SECRETS THAT COME TO THE SURFACE”
“It was amazing!” he cheers. “Lots of people asked what it was like for me to direct Robson as we’re so close, but he takes direction so well.”
“Tom did a fantastic job!” chimes Robson. “He’s such a likeable person, and that just resonated on the set. So it was a very happy place to be, as Grantchester always is…”