Adrian Dunbar has hinted his Line of Duty character Supt Ted Hastings could make a telly comeback.
The actor, who played the police chief in all six series of the smash hit BBC cop show, said Hastings was ‘out there somewhere’, adding: “We might do something with him again.” Playing the troubled ex-commander of the programme’s Anti-Corruption Unit 12 landed Northern Irish actor Dunbar TV Choice and GQ Men Of The Year gongs – plus BAFTA and National Television Award nominations.
The show’s 2021 finale drew 13.1 million viewers – the largest overnight audience for a BBC drama in 13 years. Now Adrian, 65, who also starred in smash hit cult movies The Crying Game and My Left Foot, has hinted the show – or at least his character in it – may not be finished. He told actors’ magazine The Stage: “Line of Duty came along and changed everything.
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“I have a good sense of TV history and what it takes to create an iconic character. Looking back on it I feel we have done something that will resonate for many years.
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“I feel a real sense of achievement. For me the character is still alive. He’s out there somewhere. And, who knows, we might do something with him again.”
In 2022 the actor said he did not think there would be a seventh series of the show which ran from 2012 and also starred Martin Compston, Vicky McClure, Kelly Macdonald and Keeley Hawes. But Adrian did not rule out future specials.
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Line of Duty creator Jed Mercurio has said he tied up many of the loose threads during the sixth series as another had not been commissioned. But he also said the BBC was ‘very supportive’ of the show and ‘conversations have been very reassuring from the standpoint of not having to wrap things up’.
Adrian previously teased a return for the series, telling the BBC: “Yeah, I mean, it was Vicky [McClure] who text me yesterday saying ‘I’m about to do loads of press for Trigger Point but I know the only thing I’ll be asked is are we about to do Line of Duty again?’
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“And the answer to that is we don’t know, we’d love to, because the last time we did it, it was in lockdown. And so we kind of couldn’t get out, we couldn’t have fun. So we were kind of robbed of the experience of working together again. And so we’d really like to do it again. But you know, at the moment, we don’t know.”
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