When he first decided to take on the role of neuroscientist Bill Ward in sci-fi drama War Of The Worlds, which is returning for a second series this week, Gabriel Byrne faced something of a dilemma.
‘Playing a scientist is not the same as playing a gangster or a villain, because it’s pretty hard to make a scientist exciting,’ he laughs.
‘Maybe Frankenstein did, where we actually see a monster come out of it… but being an investigative scientist presents challenges as an actor.’
In fact, it turns out that neuroscientists can be quite exciting when they’re dealing with the prospect of an alien invasion, as Bill Ward did in the first series of the drama, an Anglo-French re-imagining of the famed HG Wells novel which explores the fallout of the attack on survivors in London, Paris and the French Alps.
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