Time Capsule David Morrissey
THE VERSATILE ACTOR ON KEY IMAGES FROM HIS CAREER
WORDS CHRIS HEWITT
IF DAVID MORRISSEY’S career has been one thing, it’s eclectic. The Liverpudlian actor has put his imposing figure to great use as cops, centurions, politicians, tyrants, and even football referees (although “tyrants” probably covers that too). But now he’s adding ‘prolific’ into the mix, starring in not one but two BBC shows: the second season of bleak cop drama Sherwood and the first of witty sitcom Daddy Issues. “It’s like Morrissey buses,” he laughs. “You wait so long, then three come along.” While we’re waiting for the third, let’s take that Morrissey bus down memory lane.
SAY “CHEESE”
SHERWOOD: SEASON 2 (2024)
“I don’t think Sherwood was ever conceived as an ongoing series. James [Graham] wrote it as a one-off, and while he was doing it he met quite a number of people and they would tell James many other stories about other crimes, and that laid the seeds for James to carry on exploring. (Empire: “What’s it like shooting promo images?”) Well, that shot was on the day. There’s a photographer [there], reacting to the scene. And he or she will be given some time —I like it at the end —to work on specific images for the press department. I only have one rule in terms of set photographers: they can take as many photographs as they want as we’re rehearsing, but when we’re doing a take, I don’t like them to be around. I like the idea that there’s one lens that is observing the shot.”