Would you help your best pal to die? That’s the question posed by Andrea Gibb’s devastating new series Mayflies. The real-life friends discuss couch-surfing, working together – and AC-12 mania
Martin Compston – AKA strait-laced DI Steve Arnott in Line of Duty – was a long way from AC-12 when he received the script for Mayflies, based on Andrew O’Hagan’s novel about lifelong friends plunged into a crisis in adulthood. “I was in a field in Budapest after an Arctic Monkeys gig when I got the email,” says the actor, from his home in Las Vegas. “I saw Tony was in it and thought, ‘Is this for real?’” That’s Tony Curran, with whom he has been pals since they played menacing Glaswegian miscreants in the haunting 2006 thriller Red Road. “The big man really took me under his wing,” he says.
Like the chipmunk-cheery Compston, the dry, droll Curran is a Scot abroad: he joins our call from Los Angeles, where he has lived for nearly 20 years. Compston even kipped on his kitchen floor once when he was in LA for pilot season. “I gave you a couch at least, didn’t I?” says Curran. “Not at first, cos there was someone else on it,” says Compston. “Aye, it’s a lot like the YMCA, my pad,” Curran concedes.
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