\u201cThe things I\u2019m going to tell you tonight are going to sound unlikely,\u201d says Peter Capaldi\u2019s serial-killing vigilante at the start of the second episode of Amazon<\/a>\u2019s The Devil\u2019s Hour<\/a>. He\u2019s not wrong. Even in these days of sky-high concepts and spoiler warnings, The Devil\u2019s Hour is a tricky show to write about, let alone promote.<\/p>\n Written by newcomer Tom Moran, it\u2019s an unsettling psychological thriller with shades of whodunnit, domestic drama and horror. Lucy Chambers (Jessica Raine), a child protection officer, has a fraught relationship with her son Isaac (Benjamin Chivers). Withdrawn and emotionally blank, the eight-year-old\u2019s condition defies diagnosis and Lucy\u2019s estranged husband has all but given up on him.<\/p>\n Equally distressing are Lucy\u2019s daytime visions and the nightmares that wake her regularly at 3:33am, in the middle of the so-called \u2018Devil\u2019s Hour\u2019, when the space between the living and the dead is supposedly most porous. These visions draw Lucy into the orbit of both Capaldi\u2019s nomadic loner Gideon, the prime suspect in a series of murders, and an odd-couple pair of coppers, played by Nikesh Patel and Alex Ferns.<\/p>\n Sitting down to talk at the drama\u2019s production base outside Farnborough, Raine and Capaldi are both dressed in character \u2013 she neat and groomed in a trouser suit, he wild-haired and a little dishevelled.<\/p>\n Raine describes Lucy as \u201ca gift \u2013 partly because she\u2019s a well-written character, but there\u2019s also a Sliding Doors element where you see a different path taken. She\u2019s not this perfect human being, but you love watching her make those decisions and mistakes. Her visions are getting so bad that she\u2019s questioning her own sanity, but aside from that, she\u2019s the most relatable character I\u2019ve ever played. She\u2019s a warm person and doesn\u2019t take herself too seriously, but she\u2019s absolutely shattered and on the edge of coping. We all know that feeling. I really admire her tireless energy in getting to the bottom of what is wrong.\u201d<\/p>\n Did being a mother help to access those feelings? \u201cYeah, definitely. Because you just don\u2019t know until you know, do you? This all-encompassing love and fatigue and relentlessness. If I was raising a child and getting nothing back for eight years, I would really struggle with that. So for me it\u2019s a love letter to motherhood as much as anything. I\u2019ve found it really moving to play.\u201d<\/p>\n Capaldi makes his first appearance at the end of the opening episode, gaunt, imposing and enigmatic opposite Lucy in a police interrogation room. While gentle charm personified in person, Capaldi has played his fair share of monsters, most famously The Thick of It\u2019s splenetic spin doctor Malcolm Tucker, with his \u201cattack eyebrows\u201d.<\/p>\n \u201cGideon is a murderer and a danger to society,\u201d says Capaldi with a wolfish grin. \u201cA cross between a crusty and a survivalist who exists on the fringes of society, always on the run. He seeks Lucy out because he believes he has some degree of clairvoyance and that she may be of significance in some wider plan.\u201d<\/p>\n So does Gideon have supernatural powers? Capaldi ponders. \u201cI think supernatural is the wrong word, because it\u2019s not about ghosts or spirits. If you didn\u2019t know about photography, you\u2019d think that this chemical and mechanical process was magical. In essence, Gideon is that \u2013 there is a scientific way to explain him, but just not yet. Does that make sense?\u201d<\/p>\n Well, sort of. He sighs. It has been a fiendishly difficult round of press, even for a man used to keeping secrets after years at the controls of the TARDIS<\/a> (\u201cIt was ridiculous \u2013 who cares if the Cybermen will be here next week?\u201d).<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019ve never been quite in this position where you can really say nothing without giving everything away. It\u2019s more difficult to explain than it will be to see.\u201d He brightens. \u201cBut it\u2019s fun! I get to do lots of nasty things and wreak havoc through the whole thing.\u201d<\/p>\n But how relatable is Gideon? \u201cHe\u2019s driven by a slightly fractured good-heartedness, at least from his point of view. But I never understand when people say you have to find something relatable in a character. I think that\u2019s nonsense. If something\u2019s well written, it gives you space because all you have to worry about is telling that story. Do you have to find something relatable about playing a pharaoh? That he likes a half-hour nap?\u201d<\/p>\n Capaldi has always been a consummate napper himself (\u201cYou got an hour for lunch in the old days\u201d), but Raine found her sleep disturbed. \u201cI have lost the ability to sleep on this job \u2013 there was a point where I was waking up at 3:29am! It got under my skin, but Lucy has to be really tired so it was quite useful. I just loved that she was absolutely on her knees with tiredness, which I related to, with a two-and-a-half-year-old and a full-time job.\u201d<\/p>\n The Devil\u2019s Hour prods at some deep philosophical considerations: the line between the rational and irrational, paths taken and rejected, fate and destiny. Is fate something Capaldi or Raine believe in?<\/p>\n \u201cI believe in luck,\u201d says Capaldi. \u201cI always think it\u2019s a bit dumb when people say you make your own luck. I might not have been available to do The Thick of It, I could have been doing Midsomer Murders! I was lucky to grow up at a time where you could come from a very humble background and you weren\u2019t penalised, you were supported to go into further education. It\u2019s all going backwards now, which is terrible.\u201d<\/p>\n Raine concurs. \u201cThere\u2019s an old quote I love: \u2018Luck is where opportunity meets preparation.\u2019 That\u2019s a good one, isn\u2019t it? Some people just get really lucky, but I feel like I\u2019ve worked really hard. There was zero nepotism, no one to give me a hand. Of course, there\u2019s luck in terms of what is fashionable at the time, but it\u2019s about making sure you\u2019re ready for when the luck comes along.\u201d<\/p> With season 1 wrapped, Raine is hoping fortune calls once more, explaining she\u2019s in \u201cthat weird holding pattern\u201d and awaiting news on whether the series will return (she has signed up for a further two). Capaldi will be returning to the director\u2019s chair (he won an Oscar in 1995 for his short film Franz Kafka\u2019s It\u2019s a Wonderful Life) \u2013 but once again, that\u2019s as much as he\u2019s giving away.<\/p>\n He\u2019s also playing a policeman on Criminal Record, a new police thriller for Apple TV+<\/a>. \u201cYou don\u2019t realise how delicious it is to lift one of those \u2018Police: Do Not Cross\u2019 tapes until you\u2019ve done it. That was genuinely fulfilling.\u201d He looks aghast. \u201cBut I\u2019ve already said too much\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n The Devil\u2019s Hour launches exclusively on Prime Video on 28th October \u2013\u00a0try Amazon Prime Video for free for 30 days<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n Check out more of our\u00a0Fantasy<\/a>\u00a0coverage or visit our\u00a0TV Guide<\/a>\u00a0to see what\u2019s on tonight.<\/strong><\/p>\n The latest issue of Radio Times magazine is on sale now \u2013\u00a0subscribe now<\/a> and get the next 12 issues for only \u00a31. For more from the biggest stars in TV, listen to the\u00a0Radio Times View From My Sofa podcast<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p><\/body><\/html>\n By Gabriel Tate Published: Friday, 28 October 2022 at 12:00 am This interview was originally published in\u00a0Radio Times magazine. \u201cThe things I\u2019m going to tell you tonight are going to sound unlikely,\u201d says Peter Capaldi\u2019s serial-killing vigilante at the start of the second episode of Amazon\u2019s The Devil\u2019s Hour. He\u2019s not wrong. 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