Matt Stokoe has spoken out about feeling 'isolated' from the rest of The Hunt for Raoul Moat cast, during filming for the highly anticipated ITV true crime drama.
It was announced last year that the broadcaster had commissioned a series about the events of 2010 when gunman Moat, having just been released from prison, shot dead his former girlfriend Samantha Stobbart's new boyfriend Christopher Brown and left his ex in hospital, before shooting at and blinding PC David Rathband, as he sat in a police patrol car on the outskirts of Newcastle.
From there, Moat went on the run to Northumberland, with the week long manhunt for him coming to an end in Rothbury, when the killer shot himself after a tense stand-off with police and died from his injuries.
Following a 2020 documentary from ITV on Moat's crimes 10 years later, The Hunt for Raoul Moat is a three part true crime series, being brought to screen by World Productions, the company behind smash hit dramas like Line of Duty, Bodyguard and Vigil, which was recently confirmed to be coming back for a second series.
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And the production house isn't the only Bodyguard link to The Hunt for Raoul Moat as one of its stars, County Durham born actor Matt, will play the title role.
Ahead of the drama airing on ITV, Matt, who has also appeared in BBC's The Musketeers, has admitted that, given he filmed a lot of scenes on his own, he did feel segregated from his fellow cast members, saying: "I'd worked with Lee (Ingleby) before but we didn't get to spend much time together this time.
"While there seemed to be this bond between those who filmed scenes together and they'd hang out a lot, I was pretty much left feeling I was making a different show. My time filming was very separate; I'd either be in a tent in the woods or in the gym."
Opening up on how playing Moat and the filming process affected him both mentally and physically, Matt added: "By the end of a job, it was like my central nervous system didn't know the difference. I was left feeling like I'd been through some sadness or grief; I was moping around for weeks.
"Most of the time when you finish a job you're on cloud nine, but that wasn't the case. It felt very cleansing to shave the mohawk off; it felt very oppressive by the end."
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