{"id":49494,"date":"2024-04-12T22:00:34","date_gmt":"2024-04-12T20:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/?p=2024328"},"modified":"2024-04-13T02:42:49","modified_gmt":"2024-04-13T00:42:49","slug":"richard-armitage-wants-his-red-eye-character-to-be-an-enigma","status":"publish","type":"rss_feed","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/rss_feed\/richard-armitage-wants-his-red-eye-character-to-be-an-enigma\/","title":{"rendered":"Richard Armitage wants his Red Eye character to be an \u201cenigma\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

The actor plays a doctor accused of murder \u2013 but is he being set up? <\/p>

By David Craig\n \t\t<\/p>

Published: Friday, 12 April 2024 at 20:00 PM<\/p>

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Richard Armitage has said he wants his accused character in ITV thriller Red Eye<\/a> to remain an \u201cenigma\u201d for viewers, as they decide whether or not they can really trust him.<\/p>\n

The new series kicks off with the relatively unassuming Dr Matthew Nolan (Armitage) being arrested on suspicion of murdering a woman during a recent business trip to China.<\/p>\n

He insists that he is innocent, but is nevertheless extradited to face justice, with DC Hana Li (Jing Lusi) as his police escort.<\/p>\n

But when catastrophe strikes on their flight back to China, it becomes clear that there\u2019s more to this case than anyone imagined.<\/p>\n

Speaking to RadioTimes.com<\/a>, Armitage explained: \u201cOne of the things that I was attracted to about the role was, by default, as a doctor, he\u2019s somebody that we should trust. He\u2019s taken the Hippocratic Oath to do no harm.<\/p>

\u201cSo, therefore, the accusation of killing someone and leaving them for dead strikes me as unfair.\u201d<\/p>\n

On his first reading of the scripts by Peter A Dowling (Flightplan), the Fool Me Once<\/a> star said he was kept guessing regarding his character\u2019s true intentions \u2013 with a forgotten period of time being central to the mystery.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t know if he\u2019s who he says he is,\u201d recalled Armitage. \u201cWhat happened to him in Beijing? He can remember part of it. There\u2019s another part of it that he has no memory of which, when you\u2019re faced with a legal challenge, is really difficult territory.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo, he\u2019s already on thin ice\u2026 protesting his innocence, but really not being sure himself.\u201d<\/p>\n