{"id":31980,"date":"2023-04-11T18:12:34","date_gmt":"2023-04-11T16:12:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/?p=1814048"},"modified":"2023-04-11T22:46:17","modified_gmt":"2023-04-11T20:46:17","slug":"richard-armitage-spooks-lucas-north-probably-wasnt-100-per-cent-straight","status":"publish","type":"rss_feed","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/rss_feed\/richard-armitage-spooks-lucas-north-probably-wasnt-100-per-cent-straight\/","title":{"rendered":"Richard Armitage: \u2018Spooks\u2019 Lucas North probably wasn\u2019t 100 per cent straight\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

Speaking to Radio Times magazine, Richard Armitage reveals more about his fan-favourite character of Lucas North in Spooks. <\/p>

By Morgan Cormack\n \t\t<\/p>

Published: Tuesday, 11 April 2023 at 12:00 am<\/p>

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Richard Armitage has said that his Spooks<\/a> character Lucas North probably wasn\u2019t \u201c100 per cent straight\u201d.<\/p>\n

Speaking in this week\u2019s issue of Radio Times magazine<\/strong>, the actor<\/a> sat down to talk about his upcoming series, the Netflix erotic thriller Obsession<\/a>, in which he plays\u00a0an obsessed surgeon, father and lover who becomes enamoured with his son\u2019s girlfriend.<\/p>\n

Reflecting on his Robin Hood and Spooks days, Armitage noted that while he has been presented as a presumably straight hero on screen, he explained: \u201cI\u2019ve always been very clear with myself: this is them, this is the bit that\u2019s me. I think it helps you be an actor, because there was never a crossover.<\/p>\n

\u201cAlso, I would always ask the question of the character: is Lucas North 100 per cent straight? I would say the answer\u2019s probably no, it\u2019s got to be. Sexuality is currency in drama.\u201d<\/p>\n

The fictional character appeared in seasons 7, 8 and 9 of the long-running BBC spy drama.<\/p>

Elsewhere in the new issue, Armitage discussed coming out as a teenager and the ongoing conversations within younger generations that gives him hope for more representation on screen.<\/p>\n

He said:\u00a0\u201c[Coming out] happened when I was 19 \u2013 to anybody who mattered \u2013 and I was always waiting for that question to punch me in the face, and it never did. I thought, \u2018Are people being polite, or is it that they don\u2019t want to know?\u2019<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t know that I ever wanted to put myself in front of the work I was doing, anything about my family or personal life. I just thought, \u2018Let the work speak for itself\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n

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He continued:\u00a0\u201cI love the conversation with the younger generation. I love the idea that whatever gender, sexuality, the fluidity of who you love, how you identify, is not fixed.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat was always a thing: if I declare who I am and my sexuality, then I\u2019m saying it\u2019s fixed and I don\u2019t know that, or if I might feel something for somebody further down the line. I doubt it, but I don\u2019t know.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s more relaxed now. As a writer and producer, I do wonder if anybody has to be defined by who they\u2019re in love with.\u201d<\/p>\n
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