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"I thought the Jack the Ripper thing had been done before ... but I loved it. The thing that was most attractive was the language and the way he (Warlow) constructs the sentences ... they feel very muscular without feeling sort of wanky and silly. ... They feel very muscular." There is an antiquated eloquence to the dialogue that contrasts with the drama's mean streets and violent sexuality of the first case tackled by Reid and his cohorts, police Sgt. Bennet Drake (Jerome Flynn, "Game of Thrones") and American forensics whiz Capt. Homer Jackson (Adam Rothenberg, "The Ex List"). Macfadyen said he was drawn to his character's modern sensibility. Reid isn't "a sort of stock detective character. He's a very free thinking, forward-looking kind of man, not a sort of jaded
'seen it all' copper. So I was intrigued by that," he said. The detective's viewpoint is so expansive that he can't resist admiring the potential of an early version of a motion picture camera
-- even when he's just thwarted its use in making a 19th-century snuff film. The scene had slipped Macfadyen's mind when he watched the episode at home in London and his wife, actress Keeley Hawes ("Upstairs Downstairs"), suddenly took alarmed note of what was unfolding on the screen. "My 12-year-old stepson was watching and we said, 'OK, bedtime!" said Macfadyen, who has two children with Hawes. But he considers the show "punchy and brave" for a mature audience and would like to see it go at least another season, in part for selfish reasons. "Jerome, Adam and I get on so well, very happily. I know actors always say they love each other," he said, then smiled. "That's not always the case." ___ Online:
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