‘Bloodlands’ star James Nesbitt recalls scary memory in Northern Ireland

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Was it important to shoot the series on location?It makes a big difference to me. I left Northern Ireland in 1985 to go to drama school but it’s still very much home.

A lot of the work I consider the most important to me — [the 2002 movie] “Bloody Sunday,” “Five Minutes of Heaven,” which I did with Liam Neeson, and [the 2016 TV series] “The Secret,” about a real-life murder case — were all shot in Northern Ireland.Did “The Troubles” impact you growing up?I was able to grow up in Northern Ireland distanced from it even though it was happening just up the road.

I had a very happy childhood. I grew up in the countryside…but was involved in an incident when I was very young. My father had taken my sister and I — I was about 7 — to the local.