AMC’s newest drama series, Low Winter Sun is about a cop, Frank Agnew (played by Mark Strong) who commits a crime with his colleague, Joe (Lennie James) – only for the two to then be tasked with investigating that crime, in the process attempting to make sure no one finds out they are in fact the criminals being hunted.
Low Winter Sun is a remake of a British miniseries that starred… Mark Strong. Making this a rare circumstance of an actor reprising his role in a remake, complete with a location and accent change (the original was set in Edinburgh, the remake in Detroit).
Speaking about the unusual situation today at the TCA (Television Critics Association) press tour, Strong remarked, “You don’t get that opportunity as an actor. To resurrect him 8 years later and move him from Edinburgh to Detroit was too fascinating.” That being said, given the different locations, “the cop culture is very different," adding, “Frank, he now belongs to Detroit!” Strong has a busy film career, but said ultimately, “I just couldn’t let anyone else play my part! It’s as simple as that. I’d created the guy and I wanted to take him further."
The two British actors were asked about their experiences shooting in Detroit. Strong said he was struck by people’s perceptions of the city, and being warned, “It’s an awful place and there’s nothing there for you.” But Strong said he found, “The opposite is true. It has everything!” Strong said he had discovered that Detroit had “Mansions and apocalyptic wastelands and everything in-between,” adding, “The more people told me it’s a place I didn’t want to be, the more intrigued I was” and that he felt Detroit was “a fantastic backdrop for the show.”
James said Detroit was “a little nuts. It’s the most dangerous, most exciting, most fascinating, most interesting first world city I’ve been in in my life.” He noted that on the show “ We might start with the grim and the dark, but we go to all the different areas of Detroit.”
The original Low Winter Sun was only three hours long, but the US version’s first season will be ten hours. Strong noted that executive producer Chris Mundy has created a whole new group of characters and that the first three hours interweaves elements from the original and these new additions – “and then we’re off into new territories.” Mundy said that this excited him, because once they used the original as a starting point, “It could be whatever we wanted it to be” moving forward.
This is the third AMC project in recent years Lennie James has been involved in, after The Prisoner and The Walking Dead. James said he likes how AMC approaches a simple story in a new way. He noted that in Low Winter Sun, “This isn’t a whodunit, because in the first five minutes, we know who done it. We’re not trying to solve a case, we’re trying to un-solve it.”
Asked if the way Season 1 ends allows for a Season 2, Mundy replied, with a laugh, "There sure as hell better be! Yes, there absolutely is! But it was vey important for me and the writers that this season ends.” He said there would be hints at where Season 2 could go, but stressed, “No relationship will be the same going forward.” He added that the approach was, “This is our album and next year we’ll work on our difficult second album.”
Source : ign[dot]com
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