That Gaby Roslin Podcast: Reasons To Be Joyful - ‘Line of Duty’ Stars Adrian Dunbar, Vicky McClure & Martin Compston

Episode Date: March 8, 2021

In this episode Gaby chats with BBC’s ‘Line of Duty’ stars Adrian Dunbar, Vicky McClure, and Martin Compston who play AC-12s finest - Hastings, Kate Fleming and Steve Arnott. They talk about how much fun they’ve had filming 'Line of Duty' together over the last ten years, working with writer Jed Mercurio and the highly anticipated sixth series which begins on 21st March on BBC One. They discuss how they handle fame, their shared love of eating curry together, and their hilarious pranks on set. Plus, you’ll hear about Vicky’s work with ‘Our Dementia Choir’, Adrian’s Channel 5 show ‘Coastal Ireland’, and their fantastic idea to film a travel show together. The audio in this interview was recorded on Zoom video call so it sounds slightly different to the other episodes.  For more information on the sponsor of this episode Symprove visit www.symprove.com or follow-on Instagram on @symproveyourlife. To claim 15% off the 12-week programme use discount code GABY15 at checkout. For new customers only in the UK. Symprove customer care team are available 8-8 to answer any questions or queries, call 01252 413600. Produced by Cameo Productions, music by Beth Macari.  Join the conversation on Instagram and Twitter @gabyroslin #thatgabyroslinpodcast Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Now, we recorded this episode on Zoom, so it does sound a little bit different than usual. Enjoy. Oh, lovely to see you, Gabby. Lovely to see you, Gabby. The last time I saw you, Gabby, I... The last time I saw you in. was with Terry Wogan, and you came on the Terry and Gabby show, and it must be about 17 or 18 years ago. Bloody hell.

You don't know any different. Neither do you, babe. You can't see me. You can't see me, thank goodness. So you guys, nine years later, it is still going strong, and I cannot wait. Any minute now, we're all going to be celebrating AC12 again. game. I don't want any of you to tell me anything about the next series, but can you tell me something about it?

Go on, Martin. Well, just without giving it in, away, but one of the things I find really exciting about it, I think I've seen this before, and I think I speak for most of us, is that all of our sort of personal favourite series to do was series three, because it was a culmination of one, two, three, and we were building to this big climax. and it feels we're back at that point. It feels like series four and five have all been building to this.

And in some ways the whole series has been building to this. Without giving much weight, I think there's a lot of big answers coming to this series. There's a lot of big answers. There's a few things that are going to, yeah, be happening

that people have been looking for for a few years. Do you know the shame about podcasts is that people can't see that cheeky, Martin. You're doing it now. You're doing it now. It's my default setting. Do you know that you've now become, that you're in the top 20 of all-time best police shows ever?

Wow. No, I didn't know that. Did you compile that list? No, no, no. You did that I want to be a bit higher. No, no, no, I'm your number one. You're in the top 20 of all time ever in the history of cop shows. This is around the world.

Right on the world. Wow. Oh, that's an honour. So I decided to look up other things. This is what I found out about the three of you. Oh, God. Yeah, take a deep breath, Vicki. For 44-94, you can buy a full-size cardboard cutout of Vicki McClure, Adrian Dunbar and Martin Compton.

Unfortunately, I've seen a few of them. Yep. There's you, Martin, with, you're in a black tie and then there's casual dress. Vicky, there's you in a miniskirt with white boots and just regular outfit. And Adrian, there's you with your hand in a pocket looking very very nice. Very chic, I have to say. But I wondered how you felt about this because Ryan Gosling is only £31 and a penny and the Queen is £28 and £40.

How I feel about it is I think my wife's friends, I didn't make her last birthday party, so they bought her one of them as me as a standby because I was away. And she keeps it behind her bar, our bar. And when I come down for a glass of water in the middle night, it scares the shit out of me every time. I hate the thing. You just mentioned your bar. You built a bar in your place in Vegas, didn't you?

In your house? Yeah, yeah. It's just, I mean, when we got the place and I saw it, it was like a formal welcoming area or something like that. We got it. It was my late 20s, early 30s. And I'm too young for a formal welcoming area and dining at the house. So I have a very understanding wife and I got tenants to make me a tap. Yeah.

Just with everything that's going on, of course. but I was hoping the guys we'd have a sort of week we'd start doing the rehearsals at my place around the bar and stuff for the next series. Unfortunately, they've not get out yet. I mean, even, I was really looking forward to, Neil Morrissey was supposed to be out this year, filming a show, and I was so excited about that,

but they had to move location with everything that's going on. But hopefully at one point I can get you all out and can have a pint at the bar. Yeah, I don't think we'll be like doing any rehearsals. Adrian, I have to say, not just obviously line of duty, but oh, thank you for taking me around Ireland recently. Oh, yeah. I mean, I had great time doing that. It was just a fabulous trip. And I think everybody was sort of waiting on somebody to do some kind of a trip so that we could all get our heads right at again, the idea of traveling. You know what I mean?

It's so beautiful. I'm ashamed to say I've never been. But I feel like I went there with you. Yeah, you should get there. It's only an hour. way, you know, you just hop on a plane, you're there. It's like going to Edinburgh or Glasgow or, you know, nipping down the Cardiff. It really is simple. And the West Coast in particular is really beautiful. There's about a 2,000 mile, 2,000 kilometre road called the Wild Atlantic Way that a lot of people are starting to travel. It's one of the longest coastlines in Europe. So it's a great buzz. Yeah, it's a lot. It's a great buzz and great people, of course. And then if it does starts to rain, which sometimes it does, apparently.

You can always head for the highs too. What's the high side? Has that gone straight over my head? Like the ball. Oh, I see. Yes, thank you very much. Straight over my head. You're used to him.

I know, I haven't seen him for 18 years. Yeah, I haven't. Adrian, the one thing that obviously you all have in common is singing. Vicki knows what we're going to talk. talk about it in a minute. Dementia choir. I'm massive fan and that show is just one of the most remarkable things. But now you, Adrian, I have spent all morning listening to you singing. Oh, Gabby, that's very sweet. Well, it's very lovely. Your Irish, there's, I found online an Irish folk song of you singing an Irish folk song that I've listened to about five times this morning and I even

call my husband said, come and listen to this. This is amazing. It's, beautiful. Oh, thanks, Gabby. Yeah, thanks, darling. I mean, you know, I love singing. I've always loved singing. My mom was a really, really brilliant singer. Even the sewing machine we had was a singer. Hey. But don't chick. But no, we, you know, it's in the family and singing is great. It's, you know, it's one of the greatest things you can do. And, you know, I've always been lucky to kind of being bands and, you know, it's something I thought I was going to do, actually, before I became an actor, I thought I was definitely going to be in bands, I was definitely going to be a singer in a band or something, even if it was doing it kind of part-time. And so I've just kept it going

and, you know, I really love it. And I hope that at some point I might actually do an album of some sort. That's what the people want, Abbas. Yes, do it. Yeah, I think I might do an album this year at some point, Gabby, and, you know, do some standards. Maybe write some songs myself. I have written a few songs in the past. So, you know, but it's hard to know which way to go, whether to do, you know, an album of standards, whether, you know, like from the Great American Songbook, whether to do some kind of, you know, folk-type stuff, whether to do, you know. Will you sing a weenie, weeny, weeny little bit of it for me? It was a beautiful Irish folk song. And was it in Irish or was it in English? It was in Irish.

yeah well that would be tamme o'hmi which is like it means kind of i am alone that's the first line that says And Martin, is this true as well that you sing Irish folk songs? Because that's how you wooed your wife. I do, but I'm usually drowned out by thousands of people at a Celtic game or at a gig. So that's the only time you catch me singing. But yeah, it was just with my wife's mixed race with this mass, big mass of hair. And when we first met, I saw she had on an Irish claddering. I couldn't get my head around this American girl with that big hair.

a bit of Irish, it turns out her dad is Flynn from County Meath and yeah, so sang us some songs and yeah, this is history. I'll go on a little bit. Go on, Martin. I genuinely cannot say. I need at least six pints is when I start singing.

They're not getting a song out of me, not a chance. Vicky, have you heard him sing? Yeah, I've heard him sing like, you know, football anthems. I can see why he's not wanting to do it. Oh no, I'm not a singer. So I'm not going to sing either, Gabby, because that's the reason I've got the choir. They sing so beautifully and leave it to them.

It's such a gift being able to sing. I've had to sing and films. And it's so, when you're not good at it and you naturally have no rhythm or time in our keys, whatever, it's terrifying, man. It's all I'd want to do, if I could hold one song on karaoke, I'd be happy. That's all I'd want. What did we sing? We did karaoke one night in Belfast. and bad amiss American

No, but there's no brown-eyed girl with it No, I think it was that because I've got it on video and we were just awful Well, we are It was awful Vicky, of course

Let's talk about dementia choir Because as you know What a massive fan I am I think it's the most extraordinary thing And obviously, Adrian, you took part as well in the special over Christmas Is that still going on, Vicky? Are you going to do more of those?

Yes, we are, it's still going very strong We never stopped from when we did the series. We carried on going with the sessions and then COVID came and we've carried on doing it over Zoom. I mean, they've been amazing. You know, from people that are living on their own, living with dementia of everybody's been able to set it off with all ages, all abilities, and everybody's been great.

And we've got some things going on now. So we're doing some virtual sort of singing concerts. So there's a bit more rehearsal time to do. So we're being a bit stricter with them because at the minute we got on the Zoom and we just chat, you know, have a little sink on, but it's not as, you know, we just need to make sure they're still having to sort of challenge themselves. It's been a really rough year because we've lost five people now in the choir.

So that's really tough because it's, you know, it's like a little family and we just keep losing people and we know it's coming, but never makes it any easier. So it's been a bit of a rough ride recently. So the minute we're all, you know, there's a lot of them that, been vaccinated now. And once they're all vaccinated and the world starts to reopen, we'll be in a room together as soon as we can. The tough thing, though, for people with dementia is actually trying to explain that they've had to be separated from other people. And that, you know, for everybody,

the past year has been an extraordinary year. There's no denying it. And, and heartbreaking as well, as you just say, losing so many people. But the idea to explain to somebody with dementia that everything that they knew has now changed. Yeah, it's been complex. I mean, you know, some of the choir members really get it. And then some of them less so because their dementia has progressed. And it's been really challenging, especially those that are in care homes, because they've completely been stripped of any contact with their family.

So I do believe that lockdown has meant that people's dementia has progressed, you know, much more rapidly than it would have done. had they not had to go through this and continue with the exercise and the, you know, routine and just the contact with people in the choir and things like that. And, you know, everyone in the choir said the same. So that's really heartbreaking because time is so precious when you're given that diagnosis and we know there's no cure for it. There is, you know, a certain sort of life expectancy.

So to know that that time's been robbed is really, really hard for the families to take. Well, I can't wait to see some more of it on screen. As I said, I think it was the most life-affirming show. It's just extraordinary. Music to all of us has been, I mean, Vicki, am I right, that your very first album was Gold by The Carpenters? Yes, I love The Carpenters. These two know I much I love The Carpenter.

It was because I'd watched the documentary and I was really, like, affected by Karen's story. Not that I'd had an experience of eating disorders, but just, you know, the fact that she seemed so sorted and she her voice like if i could have any voice in the world it'd be hers um and i just loved the songs so yeah it really took me and then i just i still find it really affecting music now but you know music is you go to funerals you go to weddings you hear the beginning of line of duty you're having a bad day a good day you want to go out and party like there's just no end to the joy that it

brings and to the meaning of what it brings and how much we need it you know i could i could sit listen to music all day and not feel like I've not achieved anything. I'd have said that was a bloody great day. That's so lovely. I love that. Okay, so favourite go-to song of joy then. Adrian, what's your favourite go-to song of joy? I've got a few. I'd probably say Jose Feliciano singing California Dreaming. Oh, good choice. You get that one. All right, that's Adrian's Martin. I mean, a lot of it depends what kind of mood you're. No, but joy, just a joy. Just a Joyous one. The Beatles I've just seen her face. Okay, you get that one as well. And we know what Vicki's is, anything by the carpenters?

Anything by the carpenters? Or I'd throw in Proud Mary by Tina Tena and Ike. That's just, you know, joy. Now, as promised, I'd like to tell you more about our fantastic sponsors of this episode. They're Simprove. Now, I've been telling everyone about this company for years before we started working together, I promise. Now, it's a food supplement containing live and active bacteria to support your gut health and a balanced microbiome. The reason it's different to others that you might have tried, it's unique. It's water-based. That means it travels straight to your gut to thrive and multiply. Now, you need these in your gut. Trust me, these are good bacteria. They're a family-run brand produced on a farm in the Surrey Hills. They are so proud of their heritage and their evidence-based

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They have a helpful customer care team. Truly, they really are helpful. I call them and ask them things all the time. and we'll put the phone number in the episode description. Martin and Vicky, you started so young in the industry. Martin, you're both teenagers when you started out. Does it, looking back on it now, it was really weird because I was really,

all the stuff that I was reading about you guys. And somebody said, they called you old hands at it. He said three old hands in the industry, Adrian, Martin and Vicky. You really have. I mean, you know, you know the industry so well the three of you because you've done it. You've, you've started young. You've been doing it a while. You know, Adrian, you've directed, you've written, you, yeah. I mean, it's, you know, you know the industry inside and out. And we, you know, we haven't stopped. Yeah. I mean, and I've just, any time that there wasn't a job to do as such, I find something else to do. I'm not sort of person, but because I do think it's important. And even at lockdown, I think it's been very important. important for us all to stay somehow in our creative heads. You know, whatever you're doing, be creative about it, whether it's, you know, you're getting

into the gardening or whether you're kind of doing things in your flat or where you're redecorating or just keep creative, keep creative all the time. I think that's what's important when you're an actor to keep creative. But yeah, we've all been doing stuff for so long. I mean, you know, one of Vicki's first job was I was a. dad, you know, I mean, all this kind of crack. What age were you then, babe? I was 17.

Dad. Do you know what? You said, like, I feel like very lucky to have a lot of experience behind me. But then every time there's a new job, not like Line of Duty, because that's, you know, when you go to a returning series or a returning character, you kind of got a good idea as to what's coming up. But say Mother's Day, for instance, which was based on a true story, a heroin story. that, you know, you really wanted to get right for the heavy Irish accent, which I'd not done before.

I felt like I was beginning all over again. You know, I instantly felt like completely out of my depth. And it's the challenges that we always face, I guess, whereas, you know, Lina Duty, we do have that, you know, we've just got experience now where we can go in and the lines don't feel quite so daunting as they once did. Because, you know, we've learned a lot about it. So I'm still. you know, I wouldn't sit there and feel too comfortable that I know everything. I was playing this game with Martin when we was doing series six. And it's just on Instagram where it puts something on your head. And something came up on mine that said I was a poli artist.

And I was like, Martin looked to me and went, you don't know what that is or do you. And I was like, no, I haven't got a clue. But I mean, I think with it, a lot of it comes, if you've got a natural enthusiasm in love for what you do, you can get very far on that. Like, I'm, as Vicki says, there's a lot of stuff we're still doing. You never stop learning with this job and there's no stuff we're trying. I mean, Adrian's been a prolific writer, successful writer.

Vicki's been having production company for a long time. And I've just started dipping my toe into that. And it was terrifying to start with. But when you just think you kind of need the key elements, you kind of go, well, because you're going, I don't know how to do this. And you go, well, you need a good script. So you need a writer. You need a producer and you need a director and you need the cast.

And I know all them. you know so I think with a lot of passion about something you can go very far and I think more than anything there's a job I've been trying to get done to a while just the drive to get it done just sort of kind of rubs off on people so I think as long as you love what you do I think that's carriages for a long time is I think we've got cynical in in some ways that there's you kind of want a certain size of trailer or something when you turn up you expect well picky anyway. There's different things whereas you used to just rock up and you'd be

in anything you wouldn't care. There's definitely things where you can get to what you'll expect. But the core of it, just the love of a job and the love of sort of breaking down a script and bring it back together with people, that's never changed. And as long as you hold on to that, I think you're

in a good place. Okay, who's the most show busy then? Come on, Adrian, you tell me. Who's the most show busy? I'd say I am probably. I'm extremely showbiz. I'd agree. know we're not very showbiz any of us it has to be said and uh you soon get the showbiz knocked off you if you bring any of it on to line of duty that's for sure yeah the only the only thing you ever see is kind of like getting showby is when we're all invited together then we

all get a bit giddy if we know we can go to an event together yeah and have a piss up really that's where you kind of where you're excited to get the glad rags on but um yeah just again I think maybe that's getting older and more cynical where all these things used to be exciting. They're just, you go dressed up, you're hanging about for hours, standing about, lights for hours, watching these things drone on for hours

and then you kind of get kicked out and go home. They always look great on the telly because they're cut together. When you're there, you're just dying to get to the bar with your mates. They bore you silly. Comes back with Martin to going to the bar. Well, you know, I've not been to a bar

in about seven, eight months. So, you know, I think it's at a forefront of my mind. So now, is this also true that when you get the scripts for Line of Duty that Vicky's the first one, you read them and then you tell the guys? Is this, or is this an urban myth? It's not always the case. I'm sure I've not been the first every time, but it just became a bit of a running joke that I'd say, we'd get the scripts at the same time, and then I'd tell them that I'd read them all,

and then start telling them like, oh, I'm really sorry that you die. Or, you know, it's awful that, you know, just start making. things up. But there was that one time actually you did it. Remember because we were... Yeah, there was a... Me and Vicky were both filming in Glasgow at the same time and then we were going straight on a line of duty after it. And I don't like reading other

scripts when I'm filming something because you can get obsessed with it and you can start thinking oh, and the other character comes into your mind. Vicky, of course, had already read them. But it was the year I get thrown over the stairs and she went, have you really not read what happens? I was like, what would you mean?

And she was terrifying me going, you need to read it. Like, I'm not saying anymore. Just read it. Just read it. Just read it. And it texts me. Have you read it? I think as well, was that episode.

It was like episode two or three, wasn't it? Three. We didn't have four. We didn't have four. So I couldn't say if that meant it was a good outcome or not. I was just like, it doesn't look good. And that's exactly the way she said it. Who's the biggest joker?

Because you're all, you're naughty. I like naughty. I like cheeky. On set, though, who makes, who's the one that makes everybody else start laughing? Depends on the mood. Adi's got the songs, keeps everybody going.

He's a one-man band of noises. Ricky just kind of keep a straight face and that gets infectious and everybody laughs. And I like winding them up. But it kind of depends on who's got the most work that day. Because we're good at pissing each other off, but we're good at letting when somebody has to go into a zone kind of let them go.

but then the other two kind of goes who's on a team and then the other two kind of take great delight, annoying the one who's trying to be serious. I can imagine it being the best. I mean, actually working with people that you see, I mean, you might all hate each other and this is all a con, but I don't think so. But working with people that you really get on with,

there is nothing better. I think the fact that we are openly, you know, like Martin just said, if we piss each other off, like we don't mind admitting that because that's what families are like. like, you know, we have been going for 10 years now. And when we get back together, so when we came back to series six, it was like, we're still as excited and buzzed to do the job and see each other as we were way back then. You know, it hasn't, it's not got lost on us. We're not sort of

feeling jaded by it or by each other. We spend, you know, as much time as we can together. If we're, you know, if we was out of lockdown, it'd be a different story. We'd be able to see to them a lot more. And if we're not, like tonight, we're having a, you know, a Zoom curry and a beer. And we just, you know, we genuinely enjoy working together. And it is, because it's heavy drama and the dialogue's heavy and whatever else, you've got to be able to have a laugh. Yeah, I mean, I do really enjoy winding AD up, I've got to say. Yeah, because you do get away with it every time. It just is a worry to me every time you come to me and I haven't read the scripts. Oh, yeah. This is the other thing. So I love the schedules. I love working everything out,

highlighters, I get all the station for me. But then I'll do it for AD as well. So I'll like making my little chance as to what scenes he's got coming up and if they're like long dialogue scenes. But then every now and then I'll just go into his squat and be like, oh, I've changed the schedule. He doesn't think he needs to check it now because I'm checking it for it. I'm updating all his stuff. And then I'll go, yeah, that scene that's like 13 pages, it's tomorrow. And he'll just You can just see his face completely drunk. Yeah. No, but you'll be even more evil than that

because what you'll say to me is something like, right, well, okay, that's that. I suppose you'll want to be getting home now, and I'll go, why? Why would I want to be going home now? Because you've got that scene, some scene 43A. What's that? It's the one with you and Martin's the eight page or with you.

But that's not too Thursday. No, it's tomorrow you've got. Yeah. Drive me absolutely mad. What's your curry tonight then? Who has what curry? I'm a lamb corma. I'm a garlic,

garlic chili chicken. Yeah, I'd be the same as Vic. Although it depends. If I'm ordering in, it'd be a curry. But I do love a chicken chastlick. Is that what it's called? Chicken chastlet, yeah. Yeah, it's basically the tunduri chickener.

When I'm out, I do love that. Because there's one particular place in Belfast, we always go. And that does a beautiful chicken chastelik. I think I get at the lamb chops and chicken trash I've been having the same meal in there 15 times a year for the last eight years and I think I deviated from a start or once

I've never done it again. I'm so pleased I asked you a quick question that was the best answer to any curry answer ever. I mean you've got to take your curry serious and nobody takes because as well Jed is the curry master. Jed is obsessed. I think that's why we got so obsessed because any time

we go out for a meal and a drink to talk things over when things are going good, things are going bad, to celebrate, whatever, we go for a meal. And obviously this year we couldn't go out. But Jed's so, and he's, currently, he's an expert. I didn't even know he'd warm the plates, and I'd nearly bump my bloody hands off, picking up the plates out the oven. I didn't even know you were supposed to do that. But he takes him really serious.

I wonder what he'll be ordering tonight. You know, there'll be a sagaloo in there. Yeah, we'll all be ordering from different places. Mine's the Sharma in Beeston. It's lovely. I love this. Do they sell curry in Las Vegas? You know what? I'm sure there will be, there's everything in Vegas. There's everything. It was a nice one in L.A. I mean, there's some great ones in Greenock and Gourke back home. There's lovely Thai food in Vegas. And I'm not really, I don't really eat Thai anywhere else, but there's really good Thai in Vegas.

What's the in our burger like? Why did you have to mention it? I don't know. It's the best of the best. I've never been. I mean, that's, I can understand why Americans are that obese when the fast food is that good. But it's like fresh fries cooked in front of these, serum chopped the potato, the burger paties, the onion. Like, it's like a restaurant the way they cook it. It's double double with animal style fries.

Animal style. Animal style fries. So it's like cheese and a burger sauce with fried onions over your fries. Oh, wow, wow, wow. And a double, double burger. Oh, mate, why did you bring that? I won't be having one for a long time. So you're here at the moment then, Martin, you're not in Las Vegas?

Yeah, no, I'll be here. I say, Gabby, I split my time. Well, most of the time I'm in the UK, really. I'm very lucky with the job. My wife's got a house in Vegas where my wife's family are and got a place back home where I'm from. But most of the time I'm on the road. So, yeah, I'll be here until probably October.

With the family, though, with the family with you? It's been difficult, because obviously with everything that's going on. Obviously, my wife's got her own career as well to look after, but it's better being at home around her family's support. My parents still work where her parents are retired. So she's got that support because I'm never even at our home in Scotland. I'm in Manchester, then I'm in Edinburgh or Belfast.

So it's kind of you're getting home and then just leaving them. So I'd rather she was close. Because that's one thing I've learned from living on the road. at the best times in London and L.A., but if you don't have a support network around you, you can really, really struggle. So when you have a young family, that was really important to me

to get as close to both of our sets of parents as possible. When you do other jobs, do you check in with each other? So when you were doing Nest, did Vicky know, did Adrian know about Nest? And when you were doing your tour of Ireland, did you tell the guys, was it all discussed? We always know what one another's. I'm very nosy, so it's imperative that I know what they're both doing at all times.

And what makes, so we always ask everybody on this podcast, what makes you properly laugh? And you're all gigglers. It's okay, one by one I'm going to ask you, Vicki, what makes you properly belly laugh, lose it? And be honest. Do you know what, pure stupidity? I've got a really stupid sense of humour. And Martin said it the other day in an interview, and he's not wrong. Like I can't tell a joke.

I don't get a joke. I don't, my dad's a joke teller. I've never understood what he's on about. I can't remember them and I can't tell them. So, but I love stupidity. And, you know, when you as a kid in, like, you'd do a stupid face and get somebody to do it and copy you. And then you see them, it's just stupid, idiotic things like that make me laugh.

Me and Martin have got a stupid voice that we do. As a minute we get on set. Oh, come on. We have to hear it back. Well, we're talking like... What I'll talk a little about this. I know it just calls out of law. It's not my kind of sound.

But to talk about this and people got to nod. I don't know why. And nobody else finds it funny. No, nobody finds it funny. I find it funny. Yeah. That would be mine. That would be mine as well.

We've been doing that bug nearly 10 years. And every series we say, we're not doing that stupid voice when we get back. And on day one, we kind of just... And Eddie just goes on not a gig. And that does for the year. Oh, God. Here they go. They're off again.

What are they saying to want to? I have no idea. Adrian, what makes you properly belly laugh? Yeah, yeah. I mean, you know, I'm the same. I can, you know, just stupidity, giddiness, you know, that thing of, you know, we're all supposed to be. It's like when you're at school, you know, and everybody's supposed to be quiet and something

happens and you just can't stop. And, you know, fits of the gig. and all that stuff. You can't quite get a belly laugh out of it because you're trying to keep it, you know, keep it content. But we do have hysterical moments. There's no doubt about it. There's definitely a big moments,

you guys will tell you, because those huge interviews scenes are so daunting and so stressful, the warden but stressful, there's always a point on like, come five o'clock, somebody that says something and it goes, and then we're gone.

and you need it. It takes a good 20 minutes and we just laugh it out and then you get back to it but Eddie had a couple of corkers this year because Adi's got these really a brilliant which he is genius at

but the righteous rant always comes and if something goes wrong in the middle of the night righteous rant like a word it's a thing of beauty and it was one particular one this year I can't remember what he was saying

he was coming after somebody the case but he did be shouting there's a herd of elephants coming for you and it was not described it was just it came out of him when he was on a rant and it was just that way we all tried to keep it together and then somebody went and we were all gone and it was brilliant it is like it's a release but it's and what's funny is people trying to hold it together while because you don't want to fuck because he's take still going really well out with that line so you're like just don't catch him in the eye so but when you're you start to see people going like that around the table and like looking away and heads down

and no eye contact, that just makes it worse. And then, yeah, you're just gone. I remember one year, Martin had, Martin got his notebook, you know, the little police notebooks and I'd drawn a big dick in it, knowing that he was going to have. I mean, it's stupid. It's so childish and it's not funny for anyone else but just see it. And mate, I forgot to say to you. It happened again this year. Did it? Because the same dick.

Because it just gave me the same notebook and I was just, you know, because it's just a random bed and I just opened it. I said, I'm like, you're a bastard. You're just trying, and I always start these scenes. And it's always like AC12 interview. So I've got to be like that at the start. And I'm just flicking through and I went, oh yeah, there's Vicky's dick.

That's Vick's Dick. AC12 interview of Big Dick of my notebook, Big Dick. And you're trying to cover it and hide it and change it. And you don't want to sell anybody else because everybody will go. So you've just got to hide it out. You hid Vicky's Dick. Now you see, that's going to be the headline.

That's your headline. That's what they're all going to go with. So you guys all, I don't suppose you can tell me, I know that Jed is. I've interviewed Jed a few times. I love that guy. But Jed has said that there will be a season seven. But you can't say anything, can you? Because if you say anything, then we're going to know what happens to any of you.

So there's going to be silence now when I say that. Yeah, well, there is silence because we don't know, Gabby. That's the bottom line is we really don't know where Jed's going to take it. You know, and I think that's how he leaves it at the end of every series, doesn't he? You just think, where can it go from here? And then he comes up with an idea of where it's going to go to. But you can't really predict what Jed's going to do. That's the thrill of it all, isn't it?

You can't predict where Line of Judy is going next. You can't predict at the end of each episode. As it spins off in a different direction, you know, that's the beauty of the show. How does it feel to have your life turned completely upside down? Martin, I read that you said that people touch you. People come up and just touch you now. I think that that was the first time I went, oh, this is a bit weird.

A couple of people when I was in London on the first series in my hand was on the vice. A couple people come up and grabbed my hand to look at my hand. And that was bizarre. I'm like, you know, it's not real. But yeah, what's funny is people run up to you and go, when's it coming out? But don't tell me anything.

But this is what happens. So it's kind of good that people don't want to know. but yeah it does we're so appreciative of the support the show's had and the people have stuck with it the word of mouth that grown from BBC

and the audience has grown it does become a bit overwhelming when the show's on you kind of just sort of media-wise it goes about men all of a sudden you know there's going to be

photographers sitting in cars outside your door you get really paranoid about going out for food and walking so you're excited for it to get out but you're kind of excited

for it to finish and then you can move on to the next one, but the kind of thing with the show is now is because it's became that big. It's sort of all year round. As soon as we know, usually we can take a big break and nobody matter, as soon as this one finish, hopefully the question is going to be, when's the next one? You know, so it does sort of consume your life a wee bit in good ways and bad ways, but I think, and this is in no ways the high on the list of priorities why we would do another series. But I think because it is the social aspect

the job for all of us and hanging out together hanging out with the crew is such a huge part of it and also think one of the main ingredients of what makes the show of success the fact that was all taken

away from us this year and we couldn't do that was pretty tough so just on a personal level I wouldn't like to end it like that I would love to think we've got one more in us where we can all hang out again

we can all go for dinners again we can have our halfway party with the crew and you know have our night's out with the crew. So I would like to think for that reason, as I say, that's not a main priority for a TV show, but I would like to think I'm back. Yeah, I know you are. But the notoriety and the fame and the celebrity status, I hate the word celebrity personally, but about all of that that goes alongside it, does, it is extraordinary, Vicky. It's become

this evil, but the three of you have become more than wise, Ant and Dek, you know, The three of you, you're the triple act. You know, it's, it, people are obsessed with it. I've had to keep this quiet and I know that when people know that I've got all three of you, it's going to be, okay, what's happening? What's happening? I haven't seen the scripts. I don't know. But, but it is extraordinary.

It must be thrilling, but a bit daunting as well, Vicki. It's kind of weird. I mean, I think for me personally, like when this is England 8 to 6 came out, that felt massive for me, especially because, you know, there was awards and there was things going around it. And it felt very surreal because I'd not long just left my office job. So it was like, you know, from one world to another world. But what we're in now is completely different to that even more so.

So I think back then I'd have said, oh, you know, I'd feel really lucky. But I'm kind of sitting under the radar, whereas now we're in a very commercial sort of machine of a show, which is amazing to be a part of. but that comes with it, this kind of sort of weird, strange fame that we didn't have at the beginning. And like Adi said earlier, you know, we don't have divas on set. You know, we are still the grounded people that we were back then because we, you know, we're very sort of, I think because of our backgrounds, we're all in that sort of very gracious place where we're still glad to have the job and don't take it for granted. and Jed's in the same place as well. Like he's, you know, he's very proud of his background

and makes a point of making sure that predominantly the show is cast with people from similar backgrounds and he's very sort of passionate about that. So we are still, you know, people that want to go to the pub, draw dicks in people's notebooks, you know, we're still happy to be like, you know, the sort of normal folk. But we do have this, and especially for ADY, like, after series five, obviously that was a huge storyline for Hastings. And it was, it just exploded for him.

And he, you know, he got the pups that outside his house all the time. And it was like, you know, it's just really sort of odd. Yeah, that side's horrible. Adrian, does I mean, because you have been in, you know, phenomenal films and so many things. But this is different. It is, it is different. But, you know, unlike the guys, I'm not on any kind of social media or anything. I'm kind of, you know, I've got so many other interests that I'm not focused on what's actually happening with the show.

And then something will happen that will kind of kind of shock me or something like that. Because what will happen is I'll be out and I'll see somebody doing something. I think that's a really good thing to do, you know, and I'll think I'll get involved. I walk over and go, that's a really good thing to do. I mean, where did you buy that? And then this personal scream. And I go, what, what happened there? You know, and they go, oh, my God, it's it.

I forget that if you just stumble into somebody and go, where'd you get that bag? They go, oh. Then Hastings is asking me where I got me bag. And you kind of forget about stuff like that's when it brings it home to me, really. And yeah, yeah, it is strange. of course, you know, at the same time, you know, it's a brilliant thing to happen at this at any stage in your career, but at this stage where I'm at, it's a fantastic thing to happen

later on in your career to get kind of, you know, when you're kind of ready for it and you're happy for it to happen and you know how to handle it and all that. I'm not sure whether I would have been able to handle this sort of stuff when I was 22 or 23, but certainly, you know, now that I'm 50, it is great. It really is great. I love the idea of you three, but I know they did it on Gogglebox, but the three of you,

I wish you do your own show. We've said this. We have said that when, if Line of Duty does come to a complete stop, we quite like to do like a, we was inspired by Adi's travel show. So we thought Martin could take us to Vegas and Scotland. Adi could obviously take us to Ireland,

maybe Australia. We spend a lot of time out there. and I'll bring the guys to knots. Bring the guys to the knots. I mean, come on. Who's flying a flying for that? All right. I'll go for a pint in the trip to Jerusalem.

What's happening after that? We'll go loads of stuff. We'll go clubbing. We'll go on my tram. We'll go clubbing. We'll go to Rock City. We'll go to the football. 24-hour Greg.

24-hour Greg. Can have a lovely time. If there's any producers, a bit money out there, we're ready. She's got it sorted. She always has. Guys, thank you very much.

Thank you so much for your time. Thank you for the show. And I always say this. And it's really weird, but there's a few, not a few of us, but there's quite a lot of that love the ownership that we were there from the beginning. Yeah, you were, Gabby. Oh, yeah. I was there from the beginning.

And I love, I bloody love the show. But I also think you guys are in real life just genuinely, fantastically gorgeous people. As are you. I really adore you. So thank you very much. Good luck with this series. Thank you, Gabby. Thank you all.

Thank you, very much. Thanks a lot. Cheers. Thank you so much for listening. Goodness me, I think you can probably tell how much I love Line of Duty. Thank you so much to our exclusive sponsor of this episode. Go to Simprove.com and use the code Gabby 15 at checkout. That's G-A-B-Y-15.

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