{"id":4922,"date":"2021-09-26T14:00:40","date_gmt":"2021-09-26T12:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/?p=1370138"},"modified":"2021-09-26T14:16:12","modified_gmt":"2021-09-26T12:16:12","slug":"vigils-lorne-macfadyen-knew-he-was-the-traitor-as-soon-as-he-was-cast","status":"publish","type":"rss_feed","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/rss_feed\/vigils-lorne-macfadyen-knew-he-was-the-traitor-as-soon-as-he-was-cast\/","title":{"rendered":"Vigil\u2019s Lorne MacFadyen knew he was the traitor as soon as he was cast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"rssexcerpt\"> &#8220;I found keeping the secret really fun.&#8221; <\/p><p class=\"rssauthor\">By Joe Julians\n                \t\t<\/p><p class=\"rssbyline\">Published: Sunday, 26 September 2021 at 12:00 am<\/p><hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n\n<p>Gripping BBC drama, <a href=\"\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/tv\/drama\/bbc-nuclear-submarine-thriller-vigil\/&quot;\" target=\"&quot;_blank&quot;\" rel=\"&quot;noopener&quot; noopener noreferrer\">Vigil<\/a>, draws to a close tonight which means we should be bracing ourselves for a crazy finale that will likely throw even more twists and turns at us before the credits roll.<\/p>\n<p>The show is set onboard a nuclear-powered submarine and Suranne Jones leads the <a href=\"\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/tv\/drama\/vigil-cast-bbc-series\/&quot;\">Vigil cast<\/a> as Detective Chief Inspector Amy Silva of the Scottish Police Service who turns up on board to investigate a mysterious death.<\/p>\n<p>And we\u2019ve already had a mega-sized twist revealed last week when Lorne MacFadyen\u2019s character, Lieutenant Matthew Doward, was uncovered as a villainous traitor! The news may have come as a shock to some, but for MacFayden, he knew the whole time and it turns out that keeping this secret was a fun experience for him.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking about when he learned of his character\u2019s true motives at a recent BAFTA Q&amp;A, MacFayden said: \u201cWell, I remember I found out when I was cast which was really exciting to hear. And then I remember at the read-through James (Strong]\u00a0 coming up to me and being like, so you\u2019re our guy. And I remember for a while, at least, it being a bit of a secret between me and James \u2013 intentionally as well.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI know that James did that before when he directed Broadchurch,\u201d he added of the Executive Producer\u2019s track record of keeping secrets. \u201cHe didn\u2019t tell anyone who the killer was, and that sort of informed their acting decisions in order to not react differently to me when I was on set. I found keeping the secret really fun, as well. I just found that keeping it from my family and friends was the best thing ever, especially as it was like two years, pretty much since I was cast. And so that\u2019s a long time to hold on to that.\u201d<\/p> <p>As for how the reveal played out on screen, MacFayden could not be happier with the end result, adding: \u201cI loved that kind of arc of just being a sort of shadowy, and quite sort of polite character for a lot of it, and then being thrust into the action like that with a really violent reveal. I thought that was a really cool way of doing it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019ll hopefully see in the final episode tonight whether Lieutenant Matthew Doward will be caught out or not, but either way, we expect it to be quite the ride.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"&quot;s1&quot;\"><b>For more to watch, check out more of our <a href=\"\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/tv\/drama\/&quot;\" rel=\"&quot;noopener\">Drama<\/a>\u00a0coverage or visit our\u00a0<\/b><a href=\"\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/tv\/tv-listings\/&quot;\" rel=\"&quot;noopener&quot;\"><span class=\"&quot;s2&quot;\"><b>TV Guide<\/b><\/span><\/a>\u00a0<strong>to see what\u2019s on tonight.\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> &#8220;I found keeping the secret really fun.&#8221; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":4923,"template":"","categories":[1],"acf":[],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2021\/09\/vigils-lorne-macfadyen-knew-he-was-the-traitor-as-soon-as-he-was-cast.png",620,413,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2021\/09\/vigils-lorne-macfadyen-knew-he-was-the-traitor-as-soon-as-he-was-cast-150x150.png",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2021\/09\/vigils-lorne-macfadyen-knew-he-was-the-traitor-as-soon-as-he-was-cast-300x200.png",300,200,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2021\/09\/vigils-lorne-macfadyen-knew-he-was-the-traitor-as-soon-as-he-was-cast.png",620,413,false],"large":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2021\/09\/vigils-lorne-macfadyen-knew-he-was-the-traitor-as-soon-as-he-was-cast.png",620,413,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2021\/09\/vigils-lorne-macfadyen-knew-he-was-the-traitor-as-soon-as-he-was-cast.png",620,413,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2021\/09\/vigils-lorne-macfadyen-knew-he-was-the-traitor-as-soon-as-he-was-cast.png",620,413,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":"\"I found keeping the secret really fun.\"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rss_feed\/4922"}],"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\/4923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}