{"id":11779,"date":"2022-03-05T10:00:40","date_gmt":"2022-03-05T09:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/?p=1595976"},"modified":"2022-03-05T10:30:09","modified_gmt":"2022-03-05T09:30:09","slug":"our-house-star-martin-compston-people-are-far-too-afraid-to-let-a-drama-be-a-one-off","status":"publish","type":"rss_feed","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/rss_feed\/our-house-star-martin-compston-people-are-far-too-afraid-to-let-a-drama-be-a-one-off\/","title":{"rendered":"Our House star Martin Compston: \u2018People are far too afraid to let a drama be a one-off\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

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By Helen Daly\n \t\t<\/p>

Published: Saturday, 05 March 2022 at 12:00 am<\/p>

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Martin Compston appears on Zoom proudly wearing his green and white Celtic top \u2013 combined with his thick Scottish accent used in Our House<\/a>, his home isn\u2019t up for debate. He\u2019s in Las Vegas though when we virtually meet to chat about his new ITV thriller.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m heading back home next week which I\u2019m looking forward to \u2013 it\u2019s the longest I\u2019ve actually spent out here. I do really like it,\u201d he explains.<\/p>\n

We\u2019re really here to dig into Compston\u2019s new drama, Our House, based off a book by Louise Candlish of the same name. He plays Bram, who is seemingly a lovely husband to wife Fi (Tuppence Middleton) at first, but a series of bad choices bring about his own self-destruction and the collapse of his marriage.<\/p>\n

The action is centred around a beautiful London abode, where the couple (once separated) trial a new way of co-existing, called \u201cbird nesting\u201d. Their two kids remain in their marital home, while Bram and Fi fly between a pretty dingy flat. Constantly apart, but keeping the kids as grounded as possible.<\/p>

\u201cThe house is amazing,\u201d Compston recalls, before explaining most of the show is actually (and seamlessly) filmed in a studio. \u201cIt was nice when we got [to the house shoot] because the hallway, the doorway, becomes a huge part of the show because of the bird nesting they\u2019re constantly crossing each other over.\u201d<\/p>\n

The reason for bird nesting? Bram is a character so flawed he can\u2019t help but make terrible life-altering mistakes.<\/p>\n

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\u201cOn the page, he\u2019s an absolute bastard,\u201d admits Compston. \u201cThe producers have all been very kind because they said that\u2019s one of the reasons they came to me because you have to make him likeable. As an actor, as I play the scenes I also have to remember some of the stuff he\u2019s done. You have to keep that at the forefront because otherwise, he becomes a psychopath, that he\u2019s sort of this nice guy regardless of what he\u2019s done.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou have to really grab on to the moments where he is a good guy \u2013 there are few and far between. He\u2019s like, \u2018when everything\u2019s going well, it just feels all that mundane\u2019 \u2013 and he needs to inject the chaos into it, he needs a bit of excitement.\u201d<\/p>\n
Compston concludes: \u201cI don\u2019t think he\u2019s inherently a bad guy at all, he\u2019s made a couple of really stupid mistakes which probably in terms of a marriage are unforgivable, but once that sort of spirals, he\u2019s just way out of his depth.\u201d<\/p>\n
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