Trainspotting actress Kelly Macdonald, 45, who joins the new series, said she was baffled by her lines and the police jargon.
Kelly said: “It’s the kind of detailed forensic policing that, even when I’m saying the words, I’m only half aware of what I actually mean.”She joked that the cast read-through left her “a shell of a woman”.
She added: “It was a very dense script. I’d never done as much dialogue on any job.”Kelly knows another actor who turned down a part because of the amount of detail in the scripts.
The Scottish star plays a senior officer in the hotly anticipated sixth series alongside regulars Adrian Dunbar, Vicky McClure and Martin Compston for the seven-parter, which starts next Sunday.
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