Line of Duty star Adrian Dunbar jokes that he is ‘worried’ about cast’s weight gain while series 6 filming is suspended
‘I’m kind of worried about what’s going to happen because a lot of us are eating quite a lot’
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Your support makes all the difference.Line of Duty star Adrian Dunbar has joked that the cast of the hit BBC crime series will have gained a conspicuous amount of weight by the time filming restarts.
Production on the sixth series of Line of Duty had been postponed amid the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.
Dunbar, who plays Superintendent Ted Hastings on the series, appeared on ITV’s This Morning to discuss his thoughts.
“We were a month in and we had to stop,” he said. “I’m kind of worried about what’s going to happen because a lot of us are eating quite a lot.
“Vicky McClure is up there, you know, she’s on the Rich Tea,” he joked. “Martin [Compston] will keep himself trim no matter what.”
It is not yet clear when Line of Duty will return to BBC1.
Most of series five focused on the hunt for a corrupt police officer known as “H”, with signs pointing towards Hastings.
Before the lockdown, series creator Jed Mercurio said he was “humbly grateful to the whole cast” of Line of Duty “for making great drama out of the ludicrously implausible scripts in [the] readthrough for series six”.
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