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“#’She Cares Too Much About the Job’<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

Time has not healed Cassie Stuart\u2019s wounds. The smart, empathetic detective chief inspector magnificently played by Nicola Walker<\/a> on the gripping British crime drama Unforgotten<\/em><\/a> took a leave of absence at the end of last season because the cold-case investigations she\u2019d been leading had become too much for her. Now, as Season 4 of the PBS series<\/a> begins on Masterpiece Mystery!<\/i>, she wants to exit the police force permanently.<\/p>\n

But Cassie is three months shy of her full pension, and with her father (Peter Egan) suffering from dementia, she needs the money. She could opt for less taxing work, but decides to return to her former colleagues, now being led by Detective Inspector Sunny Khan (Sanjeev Bhaskar), as they search for the killer of a long-missing young man whose headless and handless body turns up at a London garbage dump.<\/p>\n

Cassie\u2019s journey is something Walker and series creator and writer Chris Lang discussed at length. \u201cChris and I were always interested in looking at the cost of being involved with these sorts of cases that we all love watching on television,\u201d Walker says. \u201cCassie does not have superpowers. She\u2019s an ordinary person who\u2019s really good at her job, and it took her to the place of having an emotional breakdown because she can\u2019t fly away or make herself invisible.\u201d<\/p>\n

An Olivier-winning actress, Walker excels at playing tough, relatable women coping with life\u2019s predicaments, ranging from Derek Jacobi<\/a>\u2019s perpetually troubled farmer daughter Gillian on the PBS dramedy Last Tango in Halifax<\/i><\/a> to nattily attired divorce attorney Hannah Stern, whose own marriage has crumbled, on SundanceTV\u2019s The Split<\/i>.<\/p>\n

Walker spoke with TV Insider about Cassie\u2019s struggles, filming those interrogation scenes, and why she doesn\u2019t have a career plan.<\/p>\n

Cassie is still quite fragile at the beginning of Season 4. But she goes back to her old unit instead of taking an easier job. What is<\/i> she thinking?<\/b><\/p>\n

Nicola Walker:<\/b> She absolutely knows she is not completely well, but there is no way she would go back and take a desk job. She cares too much about the job, and that is the key to Cassie: If she\u2019s going to be there, she\u2019s going to do what she does brilliantly, although she\u2019s still struggling.<\/p>\n

Cassie at least has a highly supportive, low-maintenance partnership with Sunny. It sounds similar to your own relationship with Sanjeev Bhaskar.<\/b><\/p>\n

Absolutely. I\u2019d never met Sanjeev before the first read-through. We sat down next to each other and had this whispered conversation, and it was clear that we both felt exactly the same \u2014 an absolute mixture of terror and quiet excitement because the script<\/a>s were so good you knew \u2014 unless we did something wrong \u2014 it was going to be great. I\u2019ve made a fabulous friend through the show. Our families spend time together social<\/a>ly. There\u2019s no acting in that part.<\/p>\n

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Sanjeev Bhaskar and Nicola Walker (Mainstreet Pictures LTD)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

How challenging is it to play a character who\u2019s going through so much emotional turmoil?<\/b><\/p>\n

Cassie is not a burden to carry around because she\u2019s so well written. Everything I feel playing Cassie is on the page and then I do my very best to put it in the camera. I think if something\u2019s well written, you can let it go. As you\u2019re doing it, you\u2019re letting it go and moving through the story.<\/p>\n

Some of Unforgotten<\/i>\u2019s best moments are the intense interrogation scenes. Is there a knack for keeping them fresh and interesting?<\/b><\/p>\n

When we started, our director, the brilliant Andy Wilson, said, \u201cI want you to look at this set of documentaries\u201d \u2014 about 24 hours in a real police station \u2014 \u201cand really watch how police officers behave in real interview scenes.\u201d We get brilliant actors sitting opposite us for these 12-page scenes, and they must think Sanjeev and I are annoying because we would not be looking at them half the time. We would be creating very long pauses where we\u2019re writing things down, in all the ways police really do. Frankly, they\u2019re very easy to do because they have such a beautiful rhythm to them.<\/p>\n

Unforgotten<\/i> isn\u2019t the only TV show you\u2019re headlining. You\u2019re also on The Split<\/i> and have a new crime drama, Annika<\/i>, coming up. Does it seem like we\u2019re in a very fertile time for women-led TV dramas?<\/b><\/p>\n

I\u2019ve had a good run the last six or seven years. And I feel like the last 10 years have been moving in the right direction. If I look at the work I\u2019ve had, on each of those jobs there are women in positions of power within the hierarchy. I think that is what is noticeably changing \u2014 that there are far more women heading up production companies and in executive roles. It has to change at the top and filter down to everyone else.<\/p>\n

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Nicola Walker and Stephen Manga<\/a>n in The Split<\/em> (Mark Johnson\/SundanceTV\/BBC Worldwide)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

What about the third season of The Split<\/i>? Is that going to keep you busy through the summer?<\/b><\/p>\n

Yeah. I\u2019m really looking forward to it. Because of COVID, we\u2019ve been delayed. We know this is the last one, so it\u2019s bittersweet. I\u2019m just looking forward to seeing everybody because I\u2019m not really venturing out very much yet.<\/p>\n

Is there going to be more Last Tango in Halifax<\/i> or did the last season wrap things up?<\/b><\/p>\n

It didn\u2019t. When we were filming, [creator and writer] Sally Wainwright was saying, \u201cI want to write more.\u201d I think we\u2019re in a queue. She\u2019s got quite a lot of other work. But I will wait as long as she wants.<\/p>\n

You were on Broadway a couple of years ago in an award-winning production of A View From the Bridge<\/i>. Would you want to do film or TV over here?<\/b><\/p>\n

I loved being on Broadway. It wasn\u2019t a dream I\u2019d ever had because I never thought it would happen. I think I\u2019m officially middle-aged now, and I\u2019m sure there are a lot of actresses my age, very, very good ones, in America who are happily taking the work available. I\u2019d love to, but I certainly don\u2019t think I would be foolish enough to have a plan. I don\u2019t think you can have a plan in our business. You just keep your fingers crossed.<\/p>\n

Unforgotten<\/i>, Season 4 Premiere, Sunday, July 11, 9\/8c, PBS (check local listings at pbs.org)<\/b><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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