Meet Vanessa Emme’s ‘zero filter’ cop on ‘The Chelsea Detective’
nypost.combicycle-riding DI Max Arnold (Adrian Scarborough).But being the newbie in a series now in its second season on Acorn TV wasn’t too difficult for Emme, a veteran of UK crimefighting procedurals including “Bloodlands” and “Dublin Murders” who said she “loves the genre” — but is also “a massive comedy fan.”“What I particularly love about anything I watch is … when you get to know who’re you’re watching on screen, even if it’s driven very much by action or comedy,” she said. “Getting to peel the layers off of people on screen and the stories behind them is what I’m drawn to regardless of [the genre].“That’s what I loved exploring with Layla and Max and the rest of the [‘Chelsea Detective’] team — who these people are inside aside from the serious crimes they solve.”The four-episode second season of “The Chelsea Detective” picks up, thematically, from Season 1, with the dyslexic, coffee-drinking Max Arnold — who lives on a houseboat on the Thames — solving murders in the fashionable, wealthy area of West London.
He’s now teamed with Layla, who’s not afraid to speak her mind — as did Arnold’s Season 1 partner, DS Priya Shamsie (Sonita Henry).“I think she’s the visceral companion to Max Arnold’s cerebral approach,” Emme said of Layla. “She speaks her mind with practically zero filter and lacks patience for nonsense; she tends to roll her eyes at all the excess she witnesses … and definitely brings some judgment with her and keeps her private life very private.“She’s very much married to her work and everything else sort of just fits in around that,” she said.
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