The way Kinnear portrayed Colin Jordan, could you see what attracts people to such leaders? I’d seen him at the National a couple of years ago playing Iago in Othello and it was maybe the best theatre performance I’d seen. I had quite a few scenes with Rory Kinnear and he was so good. The way it was filmed was actually quite isolated, so I didn’t get to do much with a lot of people. I felt really excited to be amongst such good company. I just couldn’t wait to get started, especially when I find out who was attached to it, such incredible actors. It felt like a significant moment in my career. What was it like to work with actors you’d looked up to for so long? Ridley Road: Everything you need to know 1.

Tom Varey, who plays Jack, spoke to BT.com about the role, his co-stars, and the warning from history that Ridley Road delivers. The four-part BBC One drama features a big-name cast including Rory Kinnear, Tracy-Ann Oberman, Eddie Marsan and Tamzin Outhwaite. If you thought 60s London was all fashion, pop music and swinging streets, BBC One thriller Ridley Road will make you think again.Īdapted from Jo Bloom’s novel by Sarah Solemani, Ridley Road lifts the veil on a darker side of 60s Britain, telling the story of the fight against increasingly potent neo-Nazi movements in London’s East End in the summer of 1962.Īgnes O’Casey, in her first TV role, stars as Vivien Epstein, a 20-year-old Jewish hairdresser from Manchester who travels to London to find her boyfriend, Jack Morris, who has been making frequent unexplained trips to the capital.Īlthough she fails to track him down, her enquiries lead her to become involved with real-life Jewish anti-fascist organisation the 62 Group and ultimately go undercover in the neo-Nazi National Socialist Movement.

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