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Bodies star Stephen Graham deleted whole lines of dialogue during filming on the new Netflix drama.
Ahead of the sci-fi murder mystery’s release on Thursday, Express.co.uk sat down with showrunner Paul Tomalin to discuss the British star’s latest role.
“His script notes were wonderful,” he recalled. “He was so precise.
“I have a tendency to write lots of long speeches, lots of dialogue. And he’d come back with these laser red lines.”
Tomalin likened Graham’s approach to another Hollywood star with an infamous reputation for striking entire lines of dialogue from his scripts.
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He joked: “It was kind of like Clint Eastwood stripping away dialogue from cowboy movies.
“He was just like, ‘Nope! Nope! Nope! Just that’.”
Despite Graham’s merciless script edits, Bodies’ showrunner had to admit he made the right calls.
“There was very little back and forth,” Tomalin said. “It was like, ‘You know what? He’s right.’
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“And what he was able to find… I can’t go into the twists, but he would find consistencies from let us say an old self and a new self that would emerge at key dramatic moments.
“And that’s fascinating to reveal when he does it. In episode eight it really happens. There are two sides to him.
“Not Jekyll and Hyde, or anything like that, but there’s the vulnerable side, the true side. And there’s this, kind of, imperious, political character.
“The way he lets those fragments reveal themselves is very well thought out.”
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In the series, Graham portrays a political leader in the near-future, Elias Mannix, who has a central role to play in the sprawling investigation.
As more clues are revealed, four detectives unveil a vast conspiracy that stretches across 150 years of history.
Is Elias connected to the murder? Or is he hiding an even darker secret?
Bodies releases Thursday, October 19 on Netflix.
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