TV EXTRA: THE RETURN OF MILITARY DRAMA OUR GIRL

MICHELLE Keegan returns to our screens in military drama Our Girl, which sees a grieving Corporal Georgie Lane lured back to the front line. The next instalment sees her character, Corporal Georgie Lane, head to northern Nigeria, tasked with assisting local forces after a group of schoolgirls is kidnapped.

“I just want to do it justice,” she says of the role. “I always want to tell the story right. I’m constantly learning with this job, not only with the storyline of what’s going on in the world but also being a medic.”

Series three has been done a little differently – the 12 episodes have been split into three parts, with each one following Georgie and her comrades on a different tour. The ending of part one, set in the aftermath of devastating earthquakes in Nepal, left fans shocked as Georgie’s on/off love interest Elvis Harte (Luke Pasqualino) died in her arms on the battlefield.

“I was in bits!” cries Keegan, who appeared on the cobbles for six years as Tina McIntyre, before her character was killed off. I love romantic storylines,” she continues, “and I would’ve loved them to have lived happily ever after.

“But their characters... that just never would’ve happened.”

Now we find a heartbroken Georgie burying her head in the sand, as she returns to work after six months’ leave and is thrown right back into the action.

And Keegan is the first to admit the physical side of the show isn’t exactly something she finds easy.

“Oh, god. I hated it, I hated it,” she recalls, describing having to crawl under barbed wire. “If the boys were in here now, they’d be laughing because I was always last.”

It would seem Keegan is always up for a challenge, though.

“I would love to do more action, I really would,” she suggests, when asked what else she’d like to try in her career. “I feel like I’ve just sort of touched the tip of the iceberg there.”

But while she reckons she’s strong-minded like Georgie, Keegan insists there’s no way she shares her bravery.

“Even when I’m doing it [filming scenes] I’m thinking, ‘What is she doing?’ But I love playing a strong character anyway. And I love how

After three months filming in Malaysia, Michelle Keegan says she misses her home in the US