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Speaking about her role in The Fall, Gillian explained how she came to work with Jamie Dornan: “I was involved in the casting on that and we looked at a lot of actors and there were some fantastic auditions and Jamie’s just was very, very clear that he really stood out and I fought very hard for him to get the role.”

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Gillian Anderson Talks About 'The Fall' and Mentions Jamie

That leads nicely into the first scene I wanted to talk about: When she realizes Spector has broken into her hotel room and read her diary, which is the ultimate loss of control. Take me through filming that moment and how you got to that place. We see the tears building, and the realization that she’s lost something of herself to him, of all people.

I think in the actual scene, the audience hears Spector speaking [what he wrote in her diary]. I didn’t hear his voice, and they didn’t need to have somebody reading out loud, because I was reading the words on the page. What he writes is so blatantly provocative and potentially shaming and intuitive. And the fact that he’s quaffed that boundary, and stepped into not just the privacy of her room and the privacy of her diary but the privacy of her mind and her thoughts — it’s such a violation that it knocked the wind out of her. Literally, she’s so not used to anyone getting anywhere near even on the surface what she projects. She protects herself. So for that protection to have been bypassed, and for him to have found her soft spot completely out of the blue. … He really steps into an intimacy that she doesn’t share with anybody. It’s a huge, huge invasion of her mind — a mind that she keeps very closed. 

The next scene I wanted to touch on is the lengthy interrogation scene, which became a great power play between Spector and Stella. How did you approach that crucial sequence?

I thought that it was exquisitely written.  How did I prepare for it? I mean one always intends to be entirely off-book, but with something like this, it’s really important to know 100 percent that you are off-book and can follow the rhythm of the scene from beginning to end without interruption. When we did a rehearsal of it, it was clear that Jamie felt the same way because we were able to do the 11-and-a-half pages straight through. What was fascinating about the process was that because we haven’t sat face-to-face in scenes before, it was as much about the actors dancing as it was about the characters dancing and observing each other, sussing each other out. We both lightly got into…predatory is the wrong word, but it’s almost like two cobras facing off. A cobra and a mongoose or something. It was something about that, and because it’s such a quiet scene, and we end up very grounded in our bodies but also very much in each other’s space. It had that kind of heightened sense to it. It was so much fun to play, and also to see how good Jamie was and could be.

There will be a third season of The Fall, and Allan has confirmed, of course, that Spector will survive being shot. I found it so interesting that Stella ran to Spector first when he and DS Tom Anderson (Colin Morgan) both took bullets. In your mind, why was that?

I mean, it is really the right thing to do. She spent how long now tracking this guy? She knows that there’s medics around. She knows that Anderson’s likely going to be perfectly fine no matter where he’s hit. She doesn’t want this to end here. She’s fascinated by [Spector]. She is fascinated by what drives him. She also knows that he’s got a young daughter, even though that’s obviously going to be a complicated relationship. But I think she doesn’t feel like her business with him is done yet. It’s also an easy out for him after what he put people through.


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Gillian Anderson Talks About Jamie

Who else on your show deserves an Emmy and why?

Gillian Anderson: Definitely Jamie Dornan, I would say, who plays Spector. Definitely in the last scene that we have together, there’s an interrogation scene, and it’s the first time that the characters have been face to face. I would say we definitely see Jamie’s acting talent in that exchange.

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Gillian Anderson Mentions Jamie

The Telegraph - “So, Gillian,” I say. “Have you seen Jamie Dornan, your serial killer co-star in The Fall getting his Christian Gray kit off in Fifty Shades?” 

“No,” she demurs, copping out of the question with non-committal diplomacy. “I’ve been too busy. I’m either filming or on planes or putting my sons to bed.” 

Too busy to make time for young Jamie whipping and chaining and rumpy-pumpying? Come on, woman, haven’t you got a pulse? Aren’t you even a little bit curious?

“I will see it,” she insists. “I am very interested to see his – range.” The imperceptible pause is too perfect an opportunity to ignore.

“Oh-ho, Gillian is that what we’re calling it these days?” And with that she dissolves into shrieks of laughter. Yes, Gillian Anderson isn’t just laughing, she is dabbing her eyes and laughing.

“That’s terrible! I mean, I like a good double entendre as much as the next person…but I really did mean his range.” She trails off and throughout the subsequent pot of tea there’s more laughter, a bit of relaxed swearing and an unflinching honesty that is, in its way, almost as discombobulating as her unflinching gravitas.

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Also, everyone has issues — Paul has mommy issues. What was it like to finally shoot with Jamie in the interrogation room?

Well, it was kind of momentous because it was all leading up to it. When I read it as a scene, all 11.5 pages of it, I felt like it was a good climax. Jamie and I both approached it in the same way. We were both completely prepared with our lines and I don't think we ever asked for a line off camera or had to stop. We just did however many takes we needed … it was almost like the words were already inside us. Because we hadn't worked together, we were watching each other in the same way the characters were watching each other.

Have you read Fifty Shades of Grey?

I haven't, so whether that influences the second part of your question or not, I have not.

Well, given your own experience with fandom early in your career, and now having worked so closely with Jamie just as he's having this big moment of his own: What makes you saddest for him and what makes you happiest for him?

Well, I think his level of fan fame is already on a completely different level than my fan fame was.

B.S.

It is. It's gotten stratospheric and I think that he has a great perspective on it all. That is part of who he is as a human being, and what people find most interesting and attractive in him, and I guess my hope for him is that he doesn't lose that. As long as he keeps that, then he'll have a big enough distance from all the bullshit that he'll be able to stay true to himself and his family.

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There's agent Dana Scully of "The X-Files" and Blanche Dubois in "A Streetcar Named Desire." Also Lily Bart in "The House of Mirth," with a little Bedelia du Maurier, aka, Hannibal Lecter's shrink, thrown in.

Of all the period costumes and unraveling of twisted psyches that Gillian Anderson has taken on, she likes her Stella Gibson the most. Gibson being the enigmatic detective superintendent sent from London to Northern Ireland on the critically acclaimed serial-killer series "The Fall," aka the thing Jamie Dornan finds himself in the middle of as "Fifty Shades of Grey" madness takes tighter hold.

Anderson had little to say about Dornan in a recent interview, begging off because the two didn't physically work with each other on "The Fall" during the first season. They do a little the second time around as Dornan's woman-killer, ex-family man Paul Spector, goes on the run.

Netflix drops the second season of the taut, Belfast-set drama Friday.

"Jamie Dornan wasn't Mr. Fifty Shades of Grey" when the slow-paced, cat-and-mouse show began on Irish television and the BBC, Anderson said. "Jamie Dornan was cast after having done very little, and we cast him before 'Fifty Shades of Grey,' so that's what our starting point was. This was a fresh face of somebody who was clearly a very good actor."

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Gillian Anderson Talks About Jamie

It must be so weird for you—Between seasons one and two, Jamie Dornan kind of exploded with all this Fifty Shades of Grey stuff.

Gillian Anderson: [Laughs.]

Is it weird? Because every time you're doing an interview you get asked about him in a much different way.

Gillian Anderson: Well, it's funny because I pick on him a lot. He's very easy to make fun of and he takes the piss out of himself and he is very free at taking the piss out of everybody else. So it's quite a joy to be able to reciprocate, especially on that subject matter. We have a lot of fun with it.

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9:46 AM: “I think you’ve really got to cling to what makes sense to you,” Dornan says of the humanity in Paul. “You have to find something likeable…there are qualities to him that make him somewhat normal, and I think we can understand being relatively good father and not a terrible husband for the most part.” He also notes he read books to get inside the mind of a serial killer. 

9:48 AM: “He’s very much an ordinary man, and that’s disconcerting to people,” Cubitt says of making Paul more realistic versus more surreal, a la Hannibal, etc. “It’s a deliberate choice to make someone who is closer to the reality of the situation.” 

9:50 AM: Were Dornan and Anderson on the phone with each other when they filmed the final scene of the first season? Nope. Dornan says Cubitt was playing Stella, and Anderson cracks that he does a great impersonation at her. 

9:53 AM: Cubitt says he pitched THE FALL for a 12-episode first season to BBC. When they picked it up, they told him they could only make five episodes for season 1, but he didn’t have to end the tale there. 

9:54 AM: Could the show continue, perhaps even without Dornan? Whether Paul makes it through the season, Cubitt says, “I’m very confident there will be a third season.” There’s official stuff to work through with BBC, but he’s hopeful it’ll happen. 

9:56 AM: Does Cubitt have an end planned? “As a writer, reaching that point when you [eventually] come to the point when you’re going to end this thing, you have to do what you think is best…you can’t please everyone,” he says. 

9:57 AM: Cubitt says he thinks we’re now geared to watching things in bigger clumps. “From that point of view, it’s a good model,” he says of having the show launch in America on Netflix. Anderson says while people talk on social media about being so excited for the next episode of show, etc., but being able to binge a show means they don’t have to, so you don’t risk people forget to tune in, etc. And the way people have watched television has shifted throughout her run: “X-FILES was the beginning of appointment television, this is the end of appointment television.” 

10:00 AM: Anderson loves working on this show, calling it her favorite thing to work on right now. “I felt strongly while doing the first season that Stella was one of my favorite characters I’ve ever played.” 

10:01 AM: Do they binge-watch shows? Anderson says her daughter tried to get her to binge-watch BREAKING BAD, but they didn’t get very far. She did make it through SERIAL during the winter break. Dornan is a few episodes behind on SERIAL, but he did binge BREAKING BAD after the finale. 

10:05 AM: “I was never in a room, situation, or audition where I was in the conversation to play someone like him,” Dornan says of playing Paul. He notes that while he takes complicated roles, he’s also a “complicated dude.” 

10:06 AM: “I think it’s quite typical teenage behavior,” Cubitt says of Katie’s relationship with Paul. “To use a cliche, she’s playing with fire, and she doesn’t quite realize it.” Things come to a head with that storyline in season 2. 

10:07 AM: Cubitt confirms he wrote a lot of the role of Stella with Anderson in mind. He notes it’s a dream come true to get your ideal actor to play a character. What characteristics specifically did he write for Anderson? “I’m wondering the same thing as well,” Anderson laughed. “She is incredible focused, understated, detailed…with an underpinning of emotion for the most part she chooses to keep in check,” Cubitt says. He points out when you first see Stella in season 1, she was wearing a facial mask and sweatpants. 

10:11 AM: “The creation of a female character in order to investigate [the crime]…I had, broadly speaking, feminist intentions at the start of that,” Cubitt says of focusing the show on a female who was searching for a male killer. “These things work if you bring something fresh to them.” 

10:14 AM: “We were approached and we had a deal that fell through for a remake of THE FALL,” Cubitt says. He says that since we share a language, we shouldn’t need to remake it for America. 

10:15 AM: What’s the different between filming in America versus overseas? Anderson says it feels more personal there, and in America, it feels a little bit like “cattle ranching.” 

10:16 AM: “You have to sort of rely on professionalism and see it for what it is,” Dornan says. “You’re still human beings, and it’s still odd positions to be putting people in, often literally with THE FALL. I personally do everything in my power to make the moments before or after the take very light…I don’t find it very personally comfortable to stay in the headspace of someone like [Paul] for too long. A lot of apologies. If I’m doing something especially heinous to an actress, I apologize and say, ‘I’m probably not going to derive a huge amount of pleasure from this.'”

Producer Allan Cubitt Talks About 'The Fall' Season 3 Plans

HitFix - The second season of "The Fall" won't premiere on Netflix until January 16, so don't go spoiling things, fancy-pants British who have already seen all six episodes.

I'm certainly not going to spoil anything from the second season, which concluded on BBC One on December 17, but at the Television Critics Association press tour on Wednesday (January 7) morning, creator Allan Cubitt teased that a third season is likely, even if hasn't been formally announced.

"We're in a situation where I'm very confident there will be a third season.  But because of internal BBC situation at the moment, it hasn't been officially announced," Cubitt told reporters. "I think the story can continue, but I'll have to reserve judgment on that, I think, until I get the green light and the go-ahead."

"The Fall" originally premiered on BBC Two in May 2013 and drama, which stars  Gillian Anderson as a British police officer tracking a serial killer (Jamie Dornan) in Belfast, migrated to Netflix soon after. While the first season was produced for the Beeb, but only distributed by Netflix, the second season has become a co-production with Netflix.

So that means that "The Fall" is already partially an American show and it features a rather well-known American leading lady, as well as a leading man who was a regular on one network show ("Once Upon a Time") and has a large studio movie coming up. "But that hasn't stopped Hollywood from circling The Fall," Cubitt says.

"We were approached, and we had a deal that fell through for a remake of 'The Fall,'" Cubitt says.

I can't instantly find a record of that deal/development, but given FOX's remake of "Broadchurch" and the network's possible development of a "Luther" remake (as well as dozens of other Brit-to-Yank translations of the years), it's hardly surprising that the idea was floated.

Though many a Brit creator has had a hand in Americanizing their shows, Cubitt doesn't seem enthusiastic about the prospect.

"I think there's probably still sort of, maybe, interest out there," He said. "I think maybe after the second season, there might be more. For me, we share a common language. I'm not quite sure why you would remake 'The Fall,' particularly for the American market. I'm really gratified by the fact that Belfast accents seem to present no problem. So I'm very happy with you guys watching what we've created."

So set that quote aside for when the remake rises again.

"The Fall" Season 2 begins on Netflix on January 16.

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Deadline - In the world of Netflix series, the concept of a “season” is all but obsolete since all installments of a group of episodes premiere on the same date. But at a Netflix TCA panel today on its crime drama series The Fall, series creator/writer/director Allan Cubitt said that traditional seasons very much have shaped the storytelling of this series, borrowed from the BBC.

The Fall’s second season of 6 episodes launches on Jan. 16 on Netflix. It began airing for UK audiences last November. Will there be a third season? “I can’t answer that at the moment (but) it’s a situation where I’m very confident there will be third season pending an official greenlight from the BBC”, said Cubitt.

Because the series was launched under the BBC’s weekly-installment model, Cubitt said that the concept of seasons was very important when the show was being conceived across the pond.

“When I first pitched the idea for the BBC I asked for 12 parts, knew I needed at least that much time to get through the first part of story,” said Cubitt, who appeared on today’s panel with stars Gillian Anderson and Jamie Dornan. The BBC then told him good news and bad news: They wanted the show, but the season was going to be only five hours. “(I asked) do I have to end the story?”

BBC said there was no requirement to have a story ending for Season 1— but Cubitt said he chose to end the first season on a cliffhanger in hopes of a second season. “It would have been very strange I think if there had been no second season,” with serial killer Paul Spector (Dornan’s character) driving off with his family. “Netflix put money up in front of Season 2, so we knew were working with Netflix at the start of the second season. ”

Cubitt also said he has an idea for an ending for the series but controversies over the ending of such series as The Sopranos or Dexter have made him realize there’s no way to please everybody.

He added that audiences should not expect an American version of The Fall. He confirmed that there had been a deal in place that fell through, but said “I’m not sure why you would remake The Fall… I’m very happy with you guys watching what we’ve created.”

Anderson was asked how the Netflix model and today’s binge-watching opportunities differ from the experience she had on the popular The X-Files. “That was a different planet, that was before any of this,” she said. “The X-Files was the beginning of appointment television. We’re the end of appointment television.”

'The Fall' Netflix Twitter Chat With Jamie and Gillian Anderson

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@JamieDornan: "@MarinaSalazar21 Are there certain characteristics you admire for one another's character?" Her strength & determination #TheFallOnNetflix

@JamieDornan: "@miz_nats Do you think Paul had any compassion at all?" No, I think he is void of compassion. #TheFallOnNetflix

@JamieDornan: "@XO_BB_XO some of the fans want Paul to actually get away with this & live a normal life. Is that weird?" That seems to be a common opinion

@JamieDornan: "@Starbuck_Scully Other than the characters you play, who is/was your favorite character on the show?" Stella, obviously. #TheFallOnNetflix

@JamieDornan: "@dornanjohnsons What is the most difficult thing about playing Paul?" Inhabiting the mind of someone so sick. #TheFallOnNetflix

@JamieDornan: "@MarinaSalazar21 What intrigued you most about your character to want to play them?" The killer's vicinity of his home life to his murders.

@JamieDornan: "@summer0001 what's the best part of making this show?" Getting to work with @GillianA who is sat right beside me. #TheFallOnNetflix

@JamieDornan: "@TeamJamieD Was it challenging to get into the character of Paul Spector?" Very challenging but ultimately rewarding. #TheFallOnNetflix

@JamieDornan: "@Emma92uk do you think there's something "more" between Stella and Paul?" You'll have to watch to find out... #TheFallOnNetflix

@JamieDornan: "@MrsSaraTurner Were you at all surprised how big #TheFall has become?" No, because they're best scripts I've ever read. #TheFallOnNetflix

@JamieDornan: "@kzatorska Any films from last year/this year that you would say are a must see?" Whiplash. #TheFallOnNetflix

@JamieDornan: "@shadeshar In one word how would you describe your character" Monster. #TheFallOnNetflix

@JamieDornan: "@JennyJohnsonHi5 I LOVE The Fall!!! Gives me a big 'ol TV boner. Will there be a third season?" Thank you. Potentially more boners to come.

@JamieDornan: "Thanks everyone for your questions. Wish I could have gotten to all of you.  Season 2 premieres on @netflix January 16! #TheFallOnNetflix"

Some of Gillian Anderson's Answers

@GillianA: "@Starbuck_Scully Other than the characters you play, who is/was your favorite character on the show? #TheFallOnNetflix" Spector.

@GillianA: "@sssfallenangel @GillianA #TheFallOnNetflix favorite scene with @JamieDornan ?" If I told you it would be a spoiler. I'll say the long one.

@GillianA: "@shadesofdornan @GillianA @JamieDornan do you think on some level Stella relates to Spector? #TheFallOnNetflix" Definitely.

@GillianA: "@rachelfardy @JamieDornan @GillianA how about a selfie?  #TheFallOnNetfix" banana added for scale ;) pic.twitter.com/T2JrugFjjp

Gillian Anderson Talks About Jamie

EveningStandard: We talk briefly about the hype surrounding her co-star Dornan's forthcoming role in Fifty Shades of Grey, a level of fame and attention greater than any she experienced in her X-Files days. "I would have to get out the Uzis and start gunning people around. Bu he is extraordinarily grounded and self-deprecating and has a very good perspective. Just a sweet guy."

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Gillian Anderson Talks About Jamie

She praised her co-star in "The Fall," Dornan, an Irish actor who will star as titular character Christian Grey in the hotly anticipated "Fifty Shades of Grey" next year.

"Jamie's a great guy, really grounded and funny and personable and lovely to everybody and works very hard," said Anderson. "He gets an opportunity in the second season to show how good an actor he is. I think that was an effort on (writer-director Allan Cubitt's) part to create some meatier stuff."

Gibson and Spector's twin narratives came to a dramatic crescendo at the end of the first season. The second season will be more "thrilling and disturbing in psychological ways," promised Anderson.

"I think it's fantastic. I think what Allan has created, and he directed this, which is no small feat, to write, produce and direct something. I think he's done an extraordinary job."

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Chemistry

Jamie Dornan is playing a very different role with Gillian Anderson as series two of The Fall begins.

The BBC Two drama sees Anderson star as a detective on the hunt for serial killer Dornan.

During the first series of show the pair only had a handful of scenes together.

Yet Jamie Dornan says the chemistry between them is undeniable, even though most of their on screen contact, was by phone.

"I think that it's so clever. The fact that there is such chemistry and it's done through any lack of physical contact."

According to figures around 4.5m viewers a week tuned in to watch The Fall.

"It's just down to great writing, very smartly crafted," he added.

'Worryingly easy'

Gillian Anderson, who became an international star, with her role as Special Agent Dana Scully in The X-Files says series two will see the pair share much more screen time.

Given the storylines The Fall deals with, Jamie Dornan says it was important there was some light relief while filming.

"On a general level it's a pretty fun set. It's the same crew as the first series. So we are like a big family," the actor said.

Dornan, 32, confessed the light relief was provided by him - even if no-one else laughed.

"I'd love to be known as a prankster but no, I'm not hiding stuff in Gillian's trailer or anything like that.

"But I like to have a laugh. I can get very silly and make jokes. Which are not funny to anyone but me," he giggled.

The Fall starts on Thursday night on BBC Two at 21:00 GMT

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Gillian Anderson says she struggles to see Jamie Dornan in anything other than his birthday suit because of his Fifty Shades role.

"I could only see him naked from the moment he walked in. It was really distracting," the actress joked.

A film based on the hugely successful book is due out in February 2015 with Dornan playing Christian Grey.

"The movie hasn't even come out - he might suck," Anderson said when asked about the anticipation surrounding it.

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Gillian Anderson Talks About 'The Fall' Season 2

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Gillian Anderson reveals there is a scene in the second series of ‘The Fall’ which will delight audiences, but one she was particularly nervous about filming – one in which detective Stella Gibson and serial killer Paul Spector finally come face to face, which means she finally got to share screen time with her co-star Jamie Dornan.

“I was nervous about getting it right,” she admits to Huffington Post UK.

“It was interesting when we were shooting that scene that we did shoot, how to work out what the relationship was, because it felt like we had a relationship, and it consisted of a couple of phone calls.

“As much as it was on the page, there was a certain pressure to get that balance right, also based on who they are, what they come with, how their relationship has formed.”

Jamie Dornan credits writer Alan Cubitt for creating chemistry between the pair without them meeting, and agrees about their ultimate encounter, saying, “It was quite a big moment.”

‘The Fall’s first series drew record audiences to BBC2 when it aired (currently available on BBCiPlayer if you need to catch up before Thursday), and it sounds as though both crew and cast have pulled out the stops to ensure they’ll be staying for the second.

“It’s definitely the hunt and the psychology, and our team are properly looking into the motivation as the clues start to come in,” Gillian says of the police side of the two-handed production, which stands apart from other crime dramas in identifying the killer from the start, and telling his story, separately and in parallel. “How we put that together, how it is that we end up having the scene that we have together is quite a compelling journey.” 

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How different are serial killers from the people who track them down? That’s the intriguing concept behind Allan Cubitt’s hit psychological thriller The Fall.

The dark and gritty drama, which returns for an eagerly anticipated second series this week, earned international acclaim when it first screened last year and became BBC2’s most successful drama launch in more than eight years.

The Fall follows Detective Superintendent Stella Gibson, a complex and often detached senior officer with the London Metropolitan Police who has been assigned to Belfast to track down a serial killer targeting young, professional women.

Stella is played by Gillian Anderson, who first found fame in the 1990s playing Dana Scully in hit paranormal drama The X Files.

“The minute I landed in Belfast and reconnected with the cast and crew and started to slip back into Stella’s shoes, it felt like she was under my skin, in a good way, and I really enjoy spending time with her,” Gillian, 46, says about returning to The Fall.

In an unusual twist, the serial killer was revealed at the beginning of the first series to be bereavement counsellor and family man Paul Spector (played by 32-year-old Jamie Dornan). But while viewers are in on the culprit’s identity, how long will it take for Stella and her team to work it out and catch him?

Belfast-born Jamie, who also stars in the upcoming big-screen adaptation of the steamy hit novel Fifty Shades Of Grey, says he is delighted that The Fall has proved so popular. He was keen to return to the disturbing and contradictory role of Paul.

“It really did feel like coming home. I’ve never returned to do a second series of anything before, but I can’t imagine it feeling any better than coming back to this,” he says.

Jamie and Gillian Anderson On The Cover Of The Guardian Guide - New Interview

Deep within a former army barracks in Belfast, I am peering inside a car boot, looking for clues. Someone has set the vehicle on fire, but if they were hoping to destroy everything incriminating they’ve not done a great job. There’s a training shoe. A piece of a stocking. A trolley wheel. A bra. As in a real investigation, the vehicle has been sprayed with glue to make sure vital evidence doesn’t get blown away.

On the set of The Fall, attention to detail is all. Now returning for a second series, the drama concerns a meticulous psychopath (Paul Spector, played by Jamie Dornan) and the painstaking operation led by DI Stella Gibson (Gillian Anderson) that aims to catch him. Unlike most crime serials, The Fall isn’t a whodunnit but a whydunnit. It uses the time other shows might spend on red herrings to build intimate profiles of detective and criminal.

“That’s probably explored slightly more in the new series,” says 32-year-old Dornan, perspiring slightly after a game of football with the crew. “From Spector’s point of view, you might find out more about him and more about why he is the way he is, rather than the… doing.”

The Fall brings us up close to both parties, often uncomfortably so. We’ve seen Gibson wolfing down a room-service burger, and looked inside her post-coital bathroom bin. We’ve watched Spector stalking his victims but also washing his daughter’s hair and working as a bereavement counsellor. These chilling juxtapositions have proven addictive. Each episode of season one drew over 3 million viewers, and helped make Dornan a star, possibly at a price.

“In a worrying way, I find Paul relatable,” Dornan says. “There’s times when I scare myself how his reactions would be similar to mine. You carry some of that anger with you. You can’t fail to be left scarred by inhabiting something like that for two seasons.”