By Patrick Cremona

Published: Wednesday, 02 February 2022 at 12:00 am


The upcoming Netflix adaptation of Neil Gaiman’s The Sandman comics is one of the most hotly-anticipated shows of 2022 – and one of its stars has teased the “extraordinary” scale and detail of the project.

Unforgotten‘s Sanjeev Bhaskar, who will play Cain in the fantasy series, told RadioTimes.com that he was blown away by what he saw during filming.

In an exclusive interview to discuss his role in the new season of Secrets of the Transport Museum, Bhaskar said: “I’ve only got a couple of scenes in [The Sandman], but I have not worked on anything of that kind of scale before.

“We shot one day in the studio and a couple of days on location, and in the studio the sets they were building – just walking around, I’d never seen anything like it.

“It was just extraordinary in terms of scale, in terms of the detail, in terms of just how true to the comics, you know, to the spirit of the comics they’re trying to be.”

He added that working with green screen, and indeed working on a fantasy series at all, were relatively new experiences for him, and he went on to praise the craftsmanship behind creating the look of the show.

“From the physical craftsmanship of carpenters and metal workers and electricians and everything, through to the fellow actors and the directors. I’m pretty excited about it,” he said.

“I mean, I didn’t know much about Sandman before I got involved, and so it was only when I was announced as being part of it on Twitter that I kind of realised quite how deep and broad the fanbase is.”