Props used for the new ITV medical drama Malpractice were so realistic they made the cast feel ill.
Producers went all out to make the blood and gore look genuine.
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Hannah Walters, who plays Matron Beth Relph, said: “I didn’t think I was squeamish until a certain day when they brought in body prosthetics and a lot of fake blood.
“In one scene there is a stemming of blood where Beth is quite hands on… to the point it was virtually everywhere.
“We had just come back after lunch as well.
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“There was a moment where everybody just had to step back in between the takes and take a breath.
“I had to do that a couple of times, just because the prosthetics were so realistic.” A set for the hospital was
created in a former tax office in Shipley, West Yorks.
It was so detailed, it felt like the real thing.
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Scott Chambers, who plays Dr Oscar Beattie, said: “The hospital set was incredibly authentic. It felt like a real hospital.
“When you are in costume and on that set it does half the acting job for you.”
Executive producer Grace Ofori-Attah wrote the show and she had the right expertise behind her as she explained she was a doctor for 15 years.
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Grace explained: “I wanted to write a medical story. But while Malpractice is set in A&E to reflect what was probably the most difficult junior doctor rotation I’ve ever done, the underlying story is really one about psychiatry, mental health, addiction and how that is pervasive.”
Speaking on leaving her job as a doctor she explained she resigned from her consultant’s position after a couple of months in 2017 and said she wanted to give screenwriting a go.
Malpractice is set to show characters struggling with addiction and mental health as the series follows people “overcoming struggles”.
The series, also starring Niamh Algar and James Purefoy, starts next Sunday at 9pm on ITV1.
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