Line of Duty star Vicky McClure on the return of the hit TV show
27 Feb, 2021 04:00 PM
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Vicky McClure at the Brit Awards in 2019. Photo / AP
The Times
By: Decca Aitkenhead
Corruption! Gangs! Bent coppers! It s the TV event we ve all been waiting for: yes, Line of Duty is back, with Vicky McClure returning as DI Fleming. But behind the scenes all the actress really wants is a quiet life in Nottingham with her fiancé.
After winning the best actress award at the TV Baftas in 2011, Vicky McClure received an invitation to a post-Bafta event in Hollywood. She had been acting since the age of 11 but had never been to Los Angeles. I thought, oh my God, this is amazing, I m going to LA! Tom Hanks and JLo were going to be there. It was going to be incredible. Then she discovered the organisers would pay for only one ticket. I d been working in an office just a year earlier. I didn t have big savings. A second ticket was an expense we couldn t cover. So I