Sky News speaks to actors Robert Carlyle, Victoria Hamilton and David Haig ahead of the release of new disaster drama COBRA.
Perhaps an unusual choice for the role, the actor, who grew up in Glasgow, told Sky News and other journalists ahead of the start of the series he does not believe anyone with as strong an accent as his would ever make it into the corridors of power.The series focuses on senior politicians dealing with the fall-out from a natural disaster. Pic: Sky UK
"[The role] gave me various problems in the research of it and the playing of it, and particularly the way that he sounds," he said."There's a kind of tone that I tried to get with the prime minister, which I think hopefully is reminiscent of... I can only describe it as like Scottish rugby players. They sound kind of vaguely Scottish. So that's what I was trying to go for there. Because of course you couldn't sound like this.
Carlyle, who moved to Canada with his family about 10 years ago, says living there he has become more aware of the possibilities of natural disasters."At first when I went there I thought, yeah, yeah, yeah. But you begin to... with children, you think Jesus, what if that does actually happen? And then the kids come home from school saying they go through earthquake drills and stuff like this.
"I had a meal with a very senior virologist recently," says Haig."As you do. Who said that they all believe that we are miraculously lucky not to have suffered a huge pandemic so far in society...
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