‘It’s about humanity and people unpeeling each other,” Anne-Marie Duff says. The actress is talking about her new Channel 4 thriller Suspect, the nightmarish story of a detective, Danny Frater (James Nesbitt), who is sent to investigate the death of a woman, only to discover she is his estranged daughter.
Suspect is based on a Danish series called Forhoret and each episode is a theatrically intense two-hander with Nesbitt and a different co-star — including Joely Richardson as a pathologist and Richard E Grant on sinister form.
“I’m not a massive fan of cop shows, but I love this one because it’s not all . . .” Duff puts on a blokey voice, “‘We’re going in, Sarge,’ all that jargon.”
Duff plays Danny’s ex-wife,