It is always a pleasure to be taken inside a performer's process, so let's take our seats for an episode of Inside the Actors Studio with Bradley Walsh. When he isn't helming gritty ITV teatime quiz The Chase, Walsh stars as a copper in Law and Order: UK. This week, he marked the show's imminent return with an interview explaining how he prepared for a train crash scene.
To wit, he takes himself back to the headspace he was in post-9/11. On the day of the attacks, we learn, Walsh was initially able to distance himself from the event. But thereafter, it penetrated the Walsh carapace – with devastating results.
"I vividly remember those days when it hit home for me," he tells the Sun. "I couldn't get out of bed." And it is on the memories of those darkest of places upon which Walsh will be relying to give us his DS Ronnie Brooks during this series. "You have to draw on those experiences when you film something like this," he informs readers. "If you don't, you're in trouble."
Well, quite. And if anyone can deny that Bradley Walsh is already giving fresh layers of meaning to the term train crash, then Lost in Showbiz would like to hear from them.
