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| Cop on the edge. Mark Strong makes his mark in the upcoming US drama LOW WINTER SUN. Images: AMC. |
He may not be quite as well known as his 90s onwards contemporaries and friends like Daniel Craig and Christopher Eccleston, but Mark Strong is easily one of the UK's finest characters actors, who has also carved out a very good and highly varied career for himself on the transatlantic film and TV scene, of which a major re-make of his previous UK CHANNEL 4 mini-series drama from 2006, the acclaimed LOW WINTER SUN, is soon to make its weekly series debut on the AMC network (from August 11th) and followed just as quickly in Blighty, on FOX.
Physically and characteristically tailor made for playing brooding, dangerous and complex characters (mostly not the types you want to bring home to meet the parents!), Strong plays Frank Agnew, known as a respected detective and an all-round good cop working within the daily and complex wilderness battlefield of American emotion and crime that is Detroit, but carrying a dark secret-the murder of one of his detective colleagues, whose passing he thinks he has successfully covered up within the perfect crime. But Agnew soon finds himself intrinsically linked to further catastrophic events in his personal and professional life that emerge from the body's eventual, but unexpected, discovery, resulting in further corruption, deception and revenge taking him deeper into the seemingly bottomless and inescapable pit that is the Detroit underworld.
AFS Sneak Previews: Low Winter Sun - YouTube
Low Winter Sun's Mark Strong, Lennie James & Chris Mundy - YouTube
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| Inside "D-Town", Detectives Joe Geddes (Lennie James) and Frank Agnew (Mark Strong). |
Also starring other popular Brit Star, THE WALKING DEAD's Lennie James as priest turned cop Joe Geddes, DAMAGES former baddie David Costabile, and MICHAEL HAYES' Ruben Santiago-Hudson as Lt. George Torrance, and adapted/created for US television by former Rolling Stone magazine writer Chrus Mundy, let's hope that the show can be a successful and worthy follow up to the gritty, often shocking drama and characterisation seen in THE SHIELD and THE WIRE.
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