The Marlow Murder Club’s Samantha Bond - ‘I accepted the job in the nude’
ok.co.ukShe might be 62, but that didn’t stop Samantha Bond stripping off to play amateur detective Judith Potts in this adaptation of Robert Thorogood’s novel The Marlow Murder Club.
Judith is retired and lives in the peaceful village of Marlow, but her life changes when she witnesses the murder of her neighbour while she is wild swimming au naturel in the River Thames.
Samantha, famous for playing Moneypenny in four James Bond movies, loved filming the picturesque scenes, but added, “I don’t think wild swimming is for me.” Coincidentally, Samantha was also undressed when she heard she had won the role. “I took the call telling me I’d got the job completely naked,” she laughs.
Samantha continues, “I’d just got out of the shower to take the call from my agent saying that I was going to play Judith, who swims naked in the river.” In the two-part series, adapted by Death In Paradise creator Thorogood from his own book, Judith forges a friendship with vicar’s wife Becks Starling, played by Cara Horgan, and dog walker Suzie Harris (Jo Martin).Together, they race against time to stop a serial killer.
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