‘Playing a paranoid stalking victim was gruelling’ says The Killing Kind's Emma Appleton

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Prepare for edge-of-your-seat drama as new show The Killing Kind, based on Jane Casey’s novel of the same name, arrives on our screens.The series follows barrister Ingrid (Emma Appleton) as she slowly begins to suspect that her ex-boyfriend John Webster (Merlin and The Crown star Colin Morgan), who she defended against stalking charges, is the one making her life a terrifying misery.

Emma, 31, reveals that putting herself in Ingrid’s fearful mindset proved to be a “gruelling” process. "Doing a psychological thriller for four months and playing a character who is paranoid, scared and nervous, you spend most of your day feeling like that,” she says. “I’d do it 1000 times over, but putting yourself mentally in that place is going to have an effect.

You know rationally that it’s acting, but other parts of your brain go, ‘What the hell is going on?’ It was quite gruelling, but again, the best stuff comes out of that sometimes!” The actress, who is best known for starring in Everything I Know About Love, describes Ingrid as an ambitious lawyer who finds herself “intoxicated” by the brooding Webster, despite having a fiancé at home. “They’re like magnets.

I think she feels really seen by him in a way that she isn’t by other people – they create this secret hidden world between them,” she says.