Line of Duty`s Martin Compston: `I haven`t played a nice guy in a while`
(The Guardian Culture News)

Plucked from obscurity by Ken Loach, the Scottish actor has gone from working-class kid to star of the UK´s favourite drama. Now, he´s in a new thriller - and, for once, without an English accentEvery actor has a war story about a disastrous audition, but Martin Compston´s is particularly chaotic. In 2002, the Scottish actor - then in his late teens - flew down to London to audition for a guest role in an ITV period drama. Just one problem: he had been sent the wrong lines. `So they gave me what I was supposed to do and asked me to come back in 15 minutes,` he says. `It was a three-page monologue from a suicidal kid telling a doctor why he wanted to take his own life. I was so angry, it was all a blur.`The experience was enough to make Compston consider chucking in his fledgling acting career. `My agent at the time called and I told him: `I don´t think this is for me.´ And then he said, `you got the part.´ I felt like maybe I can do this, maybe there´s something there.` Continue reading...