NME : “When you’re preparing for a role like this, you have to delve into what happened and it was really, really tough. “I woke my wife up screaming because I was having a nightmare that I was in an attic with Dennis Nilsen.“The content was really toying with my mind, but that was a great thing to experience because when you look at it and policing at that time and what Peter and his team went through, they weren’t privy to any form of counselling or anything like that.“Their counselling was going down the pub and drinking copious amounts of alcohol, not opening up to their wives.“Talking about your feelings wasn’t common for men of the 1980s, so the drama is also an amazing investigation into what it was like to police at that time.
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