What about the dynamic between Frances and the detective – how does that develop through the series and why should viewers keep an eye on it?

You see them together in scenes at the beginning and then their stories run parallel; they don’t come back into contact for a couple of episodes. He doesn’t know what she’s getting up to and she doesn’t think he’s doing anything to help. He also has his own demons to wrestle with.

But the main thing that tangles them together is that he’s struggling with PTSD from losing somebody that he didn’t care about at all, and she’s struggling to cope with losing somebody she cared enormously about. It sets both of their worlds into a spin and that’s how they keep getting tangled up with each other.

What are your favourite shows?

I like all of the dark Nordic shows! I also really like a British crime drama; before I started working on Vera, I used to watch it. I also love Dexter, Luther and Breaking Bad. And there’s a movie I love called Blue Ruin, a small film that won a couple of awards a few years ago. I remember a scene with a normal guy struggling to move a dead body – because that’s really hard to do in real life, and he can’t make it work. I like stuff like that, when the real world smashes into quite a dark world.

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