“It’s been great. It feels like a homecoming for me”
“It’s been great. It feels like a homecoming for me,” says the Trainspotting star, who made a name for himself Stateside as Dr Owen Hunt in the long-running US medical drama“And I love working over there and the crews and actors are brilliant. But there’s something that just feels really familiar, there’s a shorthand that exists, I think, in British crews and British actors, between us all, that you just kind of know.
It centres on Scottish detective constable Chris O’Neill and his wife Michelle, whose lives are upended when their 18-year-old daughter Olivia goes missing, after she finds out that Chris is not her biological father. Set against a backdrop of a marriage in crisis, their desperate search causes a series of secrets to begin to unravel.
Both McKidd and Vinette Robinson, who plays Michelle, were attracted to the complex layers of the story. Touching on how the character’s personal journeys with secrets and the truth play out alongside a landscape of systemic corruption, McKidd says: “When we meet , he’s kind of in a midlife crisis and him and his wife are struggling through their marriage. They’re not very connected with we first meet them, and he’s not very connected to his work.”
Echoing his co-star, McKidd adds: “I think one of the big themes in this is that the truth will always find its way to the surface, however long it’s been.
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