Vicky McClure: Line Of Duty plot is such a secret, I can’t even tell my parents

The actress stars alongside Martin Compston as DS Steve Arnott
Line of Duty: Vicky McClure as DC Kate Fleming
Alistair Foster3 February 2019

Vicky McClure says the plot for the new series of Line Of Duty is such a closely guarded secret that she has not even shared any details with her family.

The actress returns as DC Kate Fleming alongside Martin Compston’s DS Steve Arnott for the fifth season of the hugely popular BBC series, due to be broadcast early this year. Filming finished at the end of last year and McClure was reunited with her This Is England co-star Stephen Graham, who plays a “person of interest” for anti-corruption unit AC-12.

At Thursday night’s Vanity Fair EE Rising Star Party, she said: “I’m not even allowed to say if anyone so much as gets arrested in it. I haven’t told my other half — I haven’t even told my parents and I tell them everything. They’re asking me all the time. What I can say is how amazing it was to be working with Stephen again. He knows Martin really well too so there was great chemistry on set.”

Line Of Duty writer Jed Mercurio also penned last year’s hit BBC series Bodyguard, which starred Richard Madden as protection officer David Budd. But McClure said there is no rivalry between the two shows, despite them both commanding Mercurio’s attention.

Top secret: Vicky McClure is keeping mum on plot details
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She added: “Jed is a genius. He went away and had amazing success with Bodyguard. Richard was incredible — there’s no rivalry between us. There’s room on telly for both David Budd and Kate Fleming!”

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The 35-year-old Bafta winner has been taking a break from acting to focus on making her first documentary, Vicky McClure: My Dementia Choir, which will air this year on the BBC.

She added: “I’m not a natural presenter but the project came about so organically. I lost my nan to dementia so it‘s something close to my heart.”

McClure was joined at the party, at L’oscar hotel in Holborn, by EE Rising Star nominee Jessie Buckley as well as Laura Carmichael, Caroline Flack, Ella Eyre, Callum Turner and Laura Whitmore. The winner will be announced at the Baftas on February 10.

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