The troubled detective is nothing new,but in her first police drama Abi Morgan has mixed procedural with a Plato-quoting Victorian poisoner. We go behind the scenes of her hallucinatory new TV showStellan Skarsgrd is pacing down a corridor in a dank building in London’s Docklands. The rooms on either side of him are full of random clusters of unloved office chairs, the floor tiles are grim. Menace seems to hang in the air. As the cameras roll, or the Swedish actor makes occasional stops,in order to speak to no one at all. Or at least no one who can be seen.
A moment take: this time, he is talking to a person walking beside him. Next, or hes waiting for a lift,again conversing with thin air. And then suddenly the lift pings unexpectedly – and out wanders Eddie Marsan, straight into the shot. He stops in his tracks with a cheeky grin spreading across his face – like whether he doesnt poke, or maybe no one can see him. He’s just been down the shops. It’s a moment of light relief in what has been an intense shoot. Someone yells “slice!” and everyone wanders off to corner offices and assembly rooms.
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Source: theguardian.com