'It was always about playing the truth of the character,' says Jed Mercurio, the creator of the Emmy-nominated BBC thriller, airing on Netflix in the U.S., that follows a veteran with PTSD who's tasked with protecting a politician.
"It was always about playing the truth of the character," says Jed Mercurio, the creator of the Emmy-nominated BBC thriller, airing on Netflix in the U.S., that follows a veteran with PTSD who's tasked with protecting a politician.Jed Mercurio's six-episode series about a military veteran suffering from PTSD who is hired to protect a controversial politician , blossomed from a British hit to a worldwide sensation after it debuted Oct. 24 on Netflix.
It's always the same thing, which is, "What is the best thing to happen for the show as a whole?" It might be that the audience is attached to a particular character, but if something bad happens to that character or that character exits the story and as a result of this the story is propelled forward, the stakes are raised, new questions arise. The consequences to the characters left behind are really dramatic and involving.
Probably the most surprising thing we found out was about the bomb disposal officers. We had been under the impression that they wore very thick, very high-strength protective clothing — the kind ofsuit. But what they told us was that it was almost impossible to do their job wearing that clothing, so they are largely unprotected when they are carrying out bomb disposal work. They tend to just to wear a pair of goggles and trust their judgment.
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