‘Playing a paranoid stalking victim was gruelling’ says The Killing Kind's Emma Appleton
Prepare for edge-of-your-seat drama as new show The Killing Kind, based on Jane Casey’s novel of the same name, arrives on our screens.The series follows barrister Ingrid (Emma Appleton) as she slowly begins to suspect that her ex-boyfriend John Webster (Merlin and The Crown star Colin Morgan), who she defended against stalking charges, is the one making her life a terrifying misery. Emma, 31, reveals that putting herself in Ingrid’s fearful mindset proved to be a “gruelling” process. "Doing a psychological thriller for four months and playing a character who is paranoid, scared and nervous, you spend most of your day feeling like that,” she says.