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DOUGRAY SCOTT STARS AS TROUBLED DETECTIVE DI LENNOX IN IRVINE WELSH’S PSYCHOLOGICAL THRILLER…
Six-part Scottish-set psychological thriller Crime – based on the novel by Irvine Welsh, who also adapted the TV version – lands on ITVX this week, starring Dougray Scott as DI Ray Lennox, a detective tormented by his past. And Dougray (who won an International Emmy for his performance in the series, previously aired on BritBox) is a big fan of Irvine’s work…
“I still think Trainspotting is one of my favourite novels of all time,” he shares. “I fell in love with Irvine as a writer. The novel Crime is brutal and traumatising, but there’s wonderful tenderness within the characters. Irvine has this ability to emotionalise a subject like this so that it’s accessible.”
With a second season now confirmed for later in the year, the story starts as a young girl is abducted from an Edinburgh street. Lennox sets out to prove she was murdered by a serial killer responsible for previous crimes pinned on another man. A stellar cast makes up Ray’s police colleagues, including Ken Stott as Chief Supt Bob Toal, Joanna Vanderham as DS Amanda Drummond and Guilt’s Jamie Sives as DI Dougie Gillman. So how best to describe DI Lennox?
“I think you’d call him a very rough, fragile, avenging angel,” muses Dougray. “Stuff happened to him as a kid, so he became a copper because he felt it was the best way to avenge that. But what makes him a great cop also makes him a bad one: he’s impetuous and works off-the-cuff. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn’t. But he’s deeply passionate about what he does…”
YOU’D CALL HIM A VERY ROUGH, FRAGILE, AVENGING ANGEL”