David Morrissey

Russell I've worked with on Doctor Who.

I did a Doctor Who years ago, but I've known him and I just adore his work.

And Nicola I've worked with as well, both as an actor and a producer myself and just loved her.

But also it stars Alan Cumming, who's been one of my best friends for the last 40 years.

So it's really amazing to work with him.

The material is very dark.

It's very difficult to watch, I think.

It's also very, you know, it's about the divisions in society today and the need to blame others for your own sort of predicament, really.

And it's set in Manchester.

Alan plays a guy in Manchester who runs a club in Canal Street.

He's sort of struggling because he's a small businessman, really, for all the difficulties that people are facing.

But he lives next door to me in Manchester and I'm an electrician, but I'm down on hard times.

I'm sort of lost my job.

My kids are growing up.

My marriage is not in a good place.

And I sort of become radicalized by the far right, really.

And Alan becomes the target of my aggression and my anger, really.

It's a slur, isn't it?

Yeah, now it's a time to close down arguments, I think.

Whereas what Russell is trying to do is bring this to the forefront of our debate, really, of saying, look, this is where we're going.