The Responder actor Warren Brown is set to join the ITV drama Trigger Point this weekend and has teased a potential romance with Vicky McClure’s character.
Fresh off the success of the BBC police drama, Warren will be hitting screens again as Karl Maguire in ITV’s police drama opposite Vicky’s character bomb disposal expert Lana Washington.
Although he tried to avoid “spoiling” the show ahead of his debut this Sunday, Warren said his character and Lana’s will “get closer”.
He said: “For the first couple of episodes when they meet, it's clear that she's able to talk to Karl in ways that she's not able to talk to Tom.
“They've got a shared history, they understand one another.
“They're going to get closer, which is going to put Lana's world a bit more into a spin.
“I come in at a time when Lana's professional and personal lives are put to the limit - and I just make that even more complicated.”
He added: “People are going to try and work things out, but I think the scripts do a great job of just keeping people guessing and making people think that they know what's going down, when maybe they don't.”
Warren said Vicky and producer Jed Mercurio’s attachment to the series, as well as the “great” scripts, were a huge draw.
He said: “It wasn't too full on, but everything was always going to be working with Vicky, so that was a draw and was fantastic.
“I was just coming in and hanging out with Vicky for the day. We were sat in a pub playing pool for a full day and had a laugh.”
The ITV series has drew plenty of Line of Duty comparisons prior to the first episode airing last weekend, owing to Jed and Vicky’s involvement, but Warren said they sought to make Trigger Point a “gripping entertaining drama” in its own right.
“That was a huge success and rightly so,” he said. “You can't just go, ‘This is Jed Mercurio, so this is going to be the same as that’, because Jed and everyone involved in this wants to make it a different show. They're not trying to recreate Line of Duty.”
In recent weeks TV fans will also have seen Warren playing Raymond Mullen on BBC’s The Responder alongside Martin Freeman’s Liverpool police officer Chris Carson.
Warren said The Responder was the first project he did after the “Covid break” and filmed it back to back with Trigger Point.
He said: “It will either work out well or people will go, 'Oh not him a bloody gain'. It's like buses, you wait for a while and then here we are.
“I just felt really fortunate to be doing two jobs in close succession, with great casts and great scripts involved.
He continued: “I feel incredibly lucky to have been involved in these but, so often you don't know when you're doing the job how well it's going to go down.
“You read The Responder script and Trigger Point scripts and think these are great scripts, but the honest answer is you just never know until it goes out - it doesn't necessarily translate to an audience reaction.
“That was the same with Luther. We thought it was great at the time, but then the response when it came out was crazy.”
Warren played Luther’s faithful sidekick Justin Ripley, before he was killed off in the 2013 instalment of the thriller series.
He concluded: “I've been working really hard and the harder you work the luckier you get.
“To get to go to work doing this is amazing, just to be able to make a living doing this job is a bit mad.”
