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Based on Welsh’s 2008 novel of the same name, Crime – the sequel to his earlier novel Filth – follows team DI Ray Lennox (played by the Emmy nominated Dougray Scott) and the newly promoted DS Drummond, as they investigate a schoolgirl’s abduction. But in true drama fashion, the twists and turns keep coming as Lennox, desperate to know what happened to this child, wrestles with inner demons driven by his troubled past and long-kept secrets. “If you were to describe Lennox, I think you would call him some sort of very rough, fragile, avenging angel who is determined to give a voice to those people who don’t have a voice in society, and to protect the vulnerable,” offers Scott, 57, who has been working on producing the series for a decade. “Stuff happened to him as a kid and so he went into becoming a copper because he felt that was the best way to avenge what happened to him as a child,” he explains. “So what makes him a great copper also makes him a bad copper: he’s impetuous, he works off the cuff, he works on instinct. He’s left field – he’ll go down alleyways that no-one else will go down in order to try and find the solution or the answer.
Joanna Vanderham and Dougray Scott on the “dark, dark world” of Irvine Welsh’s latest drama, Crime By Gemma Dunn, PA Entertainment Reporter
To be cast in an Irvine Welsh drama was a “pinch-me moment”, says Joanna Vanderham.
The actress plays DS Amanda Drummond in the Scottish novelist’s latest page-to-screen adaptation, Crime, a six-part psychological procedural thriller – coming to ITVX – that begets a battle for the soul. “Being Scottish, he’s just such an icon!” quips the 32-year- old, who was born in Perth, Scotland, and grew up in Scone and Dundee. “I was first introduced to his work through Trainspotting the film, and then I went back to the books. I was like,‘Who is this? What is this? This is incredible!’” she remembers. “And when I was at drama school, they made us do the famous ‘Choose Life’ monologue from the film.“So, to now get to reclaim it, and do it properly and to really be working on his work the way that he wanted it done feels so special.”
“Sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn’t work. But he’s deeply passionate about what he does.”
On the other foot, “My character wants to do everything
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