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FOR A “well-respected” detective, Bancroft is a very efficient serial killer. Fans of Sarah Parish’s first season of ITV’S turbo-charged, dark, self-titled thriller have been waiting months to see if her nemesis will ever recover in hospital to reveal the wicked truth about her – that Bancroft has already killed several people.
Or, alternatively, and more enjoyably, you might just want Bancroft to continue on her murderous way through the police population of Manchester.this drama is anything but boring.
“A lot of people hated me,” admits Parish, who spends most of our chat guffawing, rarely taking anything too seriously. Not that you could do that with this heightened, but gripping plot by writer Kate Brooke. Just as well given the reaction to the first season finale, with both receiving abuse online as her character literally gets away with murder.
“It was a bit Marmite,” she says. “Some people were obsessed with it and some people hated it.there was no in-between. But at least it wasn’t in my face. No one has ever stopped me and said, ‘You’re a ******* ’ to my face. I’ve got away with it!”
Few people other than Parish could play Bancroft. She concedes that “with these cheekbones I have the look of someone who can be quite bitchy” even though she admits “she can be a “bit of a push-over”.
She believes Bancroft was a difficult character for the audience. “A lot of women find it hard to watch her. She doesn’t have any redeeming qualities.that’s quite interesting to play. Because when you normally play someone like this, there is a reason that she’s like this. But here, she’s just plain horrible.
Although I really like her.you have to the people you play.you have to From my point of view, she’s a bril policewoman, she’s dodgy but she job done really well. She is corrupt brilliant at what she’s done. And th admire her too. She just has this sw if there’s something in the way, she it. She is a psychopath.
“We’re surrounded by them; mo are psychopaths.all people of grea importance are psychopaths. Politi
In a more serious moment, Paris concede that being away from her actor husband James and their daughter in Hampshire, and at the same time playing a psycho police detective, is definitely tough.
“I found it really difficult to be in her head. It was depressing.we shoot i Manchester, there are night shoots in this little flat.and I’m in nearly e scene.when I get up, it’s dark and to bed, it’s dark. It’s freezing cold a raining.and you’re in the head of t messed-up woman!
“It’s very difficult to leave her be end of the day. I didn’t have nightm was glum. I don’t take them home, I’m not a method actor but she sta and I did find myself staring at the flat. Getting on the plane on a Frid see my family was a joy. It’s not a f
She adds: “There was no glamou