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When the gritty film This is England was first produced way back in 2006 by Staffordshire director Shane Meadows, very little was known about the cast.
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