John Thomson was almost unrecognisable as he joined the second series of Brassic.
The Cold Feet actor, who is also known for The Fast Show and Men Behaving Badly, wore a brown jacket and baggy grey tracksuit bottoms with sliders worn over socks. And he was sporting a long, comb over hairstyle while filming at Manchester's Star and Garter Pub.
John, 50, who plays loveable character Pete Gifford in the long-running Manchester-based series Cold Feet, was spotted with Joe Gilgun who plays Vinny in Brassic, a Lancashire lad with bipolar disorder.
Joe, 35, who played Woody in the gritty film and series This Is England and Jamie Armstrong in Coronation Street, gave a thumbs-up as he worked on the return of the Sky drama which he stars in and co-created.
Co-starring former Corrie favourite Michelle Keegan, Brassic has received rave reviews after making its debut last month following a special screening with the cast at Vue cinema at the Printworks Manchester.
Created with Shameless writer Danny Brocklehurst, Brassic is set in the fictional Hawley based on Joe's home town Chorley.
The partly autobiographical series takes an honest look at bipolar, the same mental health condition that Joe has.
He says it took almost 35 years to get the right medication for the condition that can cause moods to swing from extreme highs, with overactive and impulsive behaviour, to feeling low and lethargic.
"All the bipolar stuff down to the medicine is accurate. These are my symptoms. I lose my s***," he told us at the screening.
"The thing is with depression it's not all sadness, there's a lot of frustration involved and it can make you very angry and hard to be around.
"That's the reality and I wanted to be as open and honest as I could."
Joe is thrilled that Brassic landed a second series after launching as a six-part series and as a binge-able box set on Sky One, Sky Q, Sky Go and Now TV.
"Sky TV are unbelievable," he said.
"We couldn't be with a kinder network. The way they treat mental health, and talking about the issue, we couldn't be with a better network. They just let us get on with it."
