To come downstairs every morning and have to speak to people. Stefan said the other day how it’s hard to be a human being. It feels like theatre, or a Mike Leigh film… There’s a wealth of emotion to be mined from everyday interactions. Through Stefan’s economy with words, you realise they’re often saying the opposite of what they truly feel. On the surface, often not a great deal seems to be happening, but underneath there’s a lot going on. You play suburban married couple Ian and Emma. Sometimes you just have chemistry with someone. She has a very natural approach to performance and we complemented each other. I was bowled over by her performance in Unforgotten. Was the chance to act opposite Nicola Walker a factor? Stefan should call himself “the Lou Reed of screenwriting” (laughs). It’s this dark reality, which sometimes seems quite cruel and sad, but with sly humour. I was listening to the Velvet Underground yesterday and the lyrics somehow reminded me of his scripts. Those vulnerabilities and insecurities that we all feel but rarely express. He picks up on all people’s little foibles. I just thought: “Here’s a man who writes exactly how he feels and translates that on to the screen.” There’s no dilution of his original idea. Bold, uncompromising, provocative in its own way. I watched all of Mum and it was extraordinary. Were you a fan of Stefan Golaszewski’s previous series, Mum ? He moved to Somerset with his fifth wife, Ashley Moore, in 2017, and recently said: “I’m a romantic, otherwise I wouldn’t have kept getting married. It’s all a long way from Napoleonic derring-do and Bond villainy, and also somewhat ironic given that Bean has been wed five times. He now stars alongside Nicola Walker in writer-director Stefan Golaszewski’s new BBC drama Marriage, about a middle-aged couple who have been together for 27 years. His next collaboration with the writer was in the 2021 prison drama Time, which won Bean his second Bafta for best leading actor. Bean won an International Emmy in 2013 for his performance as a cross-dressing teacher in Jimmy McGovern’s Accused, followed by a Bafta in 2018 for his role as a troubled Catholic priest in McGovern’s Broken.
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