This time last year, Richard Madden was best known for his brutal death in the Red Wedding episode of Game of Thrones. But after the first episode of Jed Mercurio’s six-part action drama Bodyguard …
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—so I was really excited to work with him again, because I’ve always loved working with Jed. And when I read the script… Well, kind of my litmus test for a script is, if I get to the end of it, do I want to start it again? And I got to the end and wanted immediately to go back to the start and start reading it again. I thought, ‘OK, I’m onto something really interesting here.’ I didn’t tire of reading it, or trying to work out was going on with this character.
How did you approach the physicality of the role? What kind of routine did you have—or didn’t you have one? I had to have one for this. He’s a bodyguard, and he’s an ex-serviceman, so he has to be fit. The shooting schedule was such that some of the action sequences were repeatedly done over, so I had to be fit for that too. I had to be in the gym at 4am before we started shooting for the day. My bulletproof vest was actually a real Kevlar bulletproof vest, and that really helped. You’re strapped into it this thing, which gives you this stature.
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