Ripper Street: It's a Ripper (The Sun TV Magazine)

TV Magazine went on location in Dublin during the filming of Ripper Street this summer.

 

And as we peer past a crowd of extras, a familiar figure emerges in the gloom – former Spooks star Matthew Macfadyen, all broad-shouldered and reassuring in a well-cut check suit.

“Everyone has got this terrible hangover from not finding the Ripper – and they’ve got real hangovers as well,” says Matthew, 38, who stars as Detective Edmund Reid. “There has been a little bit of Guinness.

 

 

And this is what costume designer, Lorna Marie Mugan had to say about dressing the male leads:

“We wanted to make the three lead men stand out. They’re all above-average height, but we brought in smaller extras to make them look even taller. Also, because Matthew’s character is a dapper gentleman, he had to have a strong-shaped coat and bowler hat.

Be sure to read the full article HERE.

 

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Ripper Street: Evening Telegraph Interview with Matthew Macfadyen

MATTHEW MACFADYEN seems to be everywhere at the moment. When he’s not promoting laser eye surgery for a certain Harley Street firm, or providing voiceovers for a posh department store, he pops up in DVDs such as The Three Musketeers. However, for now he’s back on the box with this new period drama. ‘It’s a Victorian cop show really,’ he explains. ‘I had a few months of nothing then a load of scripts all came at once and this is by far the best. It’s such terrific writing — it just barrelled along.’ The new series follows a Victorian police division investigating murders on the blood-stained streets of London’s Whitechapel. Macfadyen plays Edmund Reid, a Detective Inspector who tried, and failed, to capture Jack the Ripper six months earlier. So when a young woman is found brutally murdered in a crime which bears the hallmarks of the Ripper, ex-police boss Frederick Abberline believes the killer is back. However, Reid believes a new evil is at work. Crime busting sagas in the Jack the Ripper era are nothing new, and even Matthew admits he was struck by a sense of déjà vu. ‘I saw the title and thought ‘This has been done before’, but it was so fresh, and it had all the qualities, interest and depth of a period drama.’

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Ripper Street: Daily Mail interview with Matthew Macfadyen

The Daily Mail has an interview with Matthew Macfadyen, who describes the premise of his character, Edmund Reid. He goes on to describe some of the differences between himself and his "namesake".

Here's a quote from the article on filming location: 

It wasn’t always easy during the 19-week shoot though, because they were often held up by heavy rain: 

‘It was wet, cold and then very sunny.' says Matthew, 'it’s a soggy old place is Dublin. But actually we all loved filming there.

'The barracks were like a big playground, big enough to recreate a huge area of Whitechapel, and we filmed in Dublin Castle and Kilmainham Jail, all as if it was the East End of London.’

Be sure to read the full interview HERE.

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Ripper Street: Radio Times Interview

Be on the lookout for an interview with Matthew Macfadyen in the latest Radio Times issue (5th - 11th Jan).  When we find more information we'll update you.

Thanks to Lorna

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