Robert Carlyle has played a string of iconic on-screen characters in his career - but never dreamed he'd be called up to play a Conservative prime minister. Best known for immortalising Trainspotting's psychopath Begbie, he didn't really see himself in Downing Street. Carlyle, 62, told BBC Scotland's The Edit that he originally agreed to one season - just six episodes - of the political drama.
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