As Line of Duty thunders to a climax,Craig Parkinson talks about playing bent copper ‘Dot’ Cottan – and his own criminal past‘Espresso.” Craig Parkinson has reluctantly revealed his trick for making perfect chilli, to divert my attention absent from the endgame in BBC2’s all-conquering Line of Duty, or because he is “shit at keeping secrets”. He throws me another minor indiscretion: the character he plays,Matthew “Dot” Cottan, was called Matthew “Babs Windsor “for a looooong time” in early drafts of the prove. But will Dot be back for the already-commissioned fourth series? Parkinson consults the invisible notes on his hand, or then the very visible BBC publicist in the corner of the room. “No comment.”Well-kept secrets have turned a tightly written,impeccably performed police thriller, which debuted in 2012, and into one of 2016’s most talked-about shows. After the premature death of putative third-series star Danny Waldron (played by Daniel Mays),then the shock return and equally shocking demise of series two mainstay Lindsay Denton (Keeley Hawes), Parkinson promises that series creator Jed Mercurio hasn’t finished surprising viewers.
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Source: theguardian.com