Blethyn said “Director Paul Gay is a wizard”! <\/p>
Just about every new drama that we\u2019ve seen on television in the last few months has had one thing in common: they were all filmed under coronavirus restrictions.<\/p>\n
That was no different for Vera<\/a> \u2013 which returns for its 11th series later this month \u2013\u00a0 and star Brenda Blethyn has revealed how the show adapted in light of the new regulations.<\/p>\n \u201cIn the first episode we employed different techniques when filming the police interview room scenes,\u201d she explained.<\/p>\n \u201cBecause the space is limited, and especially because of COVID, only a limited number of people were allowed in the room, usually five.<\/p>\n \u201cWe needed to be two metres apart. So a green screen would be put to use. Which means that when Vera is interrogating a suspect, the suspect isn\u2019t actually there! I just had to make you believe that they were. The other actor is behind the green screen and all Kenny and I could see were their feet. It was hysterically funny.\u201d<\/p>\n She added: \u201cAnd when the suspect is explaining themselves, Vera and Aiden weren\u2019t there. We were tucked behind the green screen delivering our lines. I defy anyone to notice in the final edit. Director Paul Gay is a wizard.\u201d<\/p> Blethyn might think fans won\u2019t spot that change, but there is one alteration that she reckons will be rather more noticeable \u2013 the number of officers in the incident room.<\/p>\n \u201cThere are normally more officers in there,\u201d she explained. \u201cBut we were only allowed a limited number of people in any given space because of the COVID protocol.<\/p>\n \u201cIf an extra person wanted to enter the room, someone had to leave meanwhile.\u201d<\/p>\n But she said there is one thing baked into Vera\u2019s personality that made it much easier to adhere to the restrictions.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s also a good thing that Vera has never been one for handshakes,\u201d she said. \u201cShe\u2019s got a natural two-metre antenna when it comes to other people!\u201d<\/p>\n Blethyn said “Director Paul Gay is a wizard”! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":3366,"template":"","categories":[1],"acf":[],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2021\/08\/veras-brenda-blethyn-explains-how-interrogation-scenes-were-filmed-during-covid-and-the-change-fans-might-notice.jpg",1036,690,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2021\/08\/veras-brenda-blethyn-explains-how-interrogation-scenes-were-filmed-during-covid-and-the-change-fans-might-notice-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2021\/08\/veras-brenda-blethyn-explains-how-interrogation-scenes-were-filmed-during-covid-and-the-change-fans-might-notice-300x200.jpg",300,200,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2021\/08\/veras-brenda-blethyn-explains-how-interrogation-scenes-were-filmed-during-covid-and-the-change-fans-might-notice-768x512.jpg",768,512,true],"large":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2021\/08\/veras-brenda-blethyn-explains-how-interrogation-scenes-were-filmed-during-covid-and-the-change-fans-might-notice-1024x682.jpg",800,533,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2021\/08\/veras-brenda-blethyn-explains-how-interrogation-scenes-were-filmed-during-covid-and-the-change-fans-might-notice.jpg",1036,690,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2021\/08\/veras-brenda-blethyn-explains-how-interrogation-scenes-were-filmed-during-covid-and-the-change-fans-might-notice.jpg",1036,690,false]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"importmanagerhub@sprylab.com","author_link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/author\/importmanagerhubsprylab-com\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"Blethyn said \"Director Paul Gay is a wizard\"!","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rss_feed\/3365"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rss_feed"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/rss_feed"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"