{"id":49637,"date":"2024-04-16T13:55:05","date_gmt":"2024-04-16T11:55:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/?p=2025730"},"modified":"2024-04-16T14:22:41","modified_gmt":"2024-04-16T12:22:41","slug":"richard-armitage-on-what-red-eye-shares-with-harlan-coben-thrillers","status":"publish","type":"rss_feed","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/rss_feed\/richard-armitage-on-what-red-eye-shares-with-harlan-coben-thrillers\/","title":{"rendered":"Richard Armitage on what Red Eye shares with Harlan Coben thrillers"},"content":{"rendered":"

Armitage plays enigmatic Dr Matthew Nolan in the new ITV thriller. <\/p>

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

Published: Tuesday, 16 April 2024 at 11:55 AM<\/p>

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It\u2019s time to get prepared for a brand new Sunday night drama on ITV, with Red Eye<\/a> set to grip viewers, especially those who may be familiar with Harlan Coben thrillers.<\/p>\n

If you are, you\u2019ll know that Richard Armitage<\/a> has long been a mainstay in various Harlan Coben<\/a> series over on Netflix, including the recent Fool Me Once<\/a>.<\/p>\n

And actually, according to Armitage, Red Eye holds some similarities to those previous tense series from the acclaimed best-selling novelist.<\/p>\n

Chatting exclusively to RadioTimes.com<\/a> about whether there\u2019s anything that can be shared between Red Eye and the Harlan Coben series universe, Armitage said: \u201cI do actually [see parallels], and mainly because it\u2019s the kind of show that I enjoy watching as well as participating in.<\/p>\n

\u201cHarlan works very much on that kind of page-turner, end of episode hook. He uses technology a lot to sort of unravel characters. And I think Peter [A Dowling, director] has done a similar thing with this.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Richard Armitage as Matthew Nolan and Jing Lusi as Hana Li in Red Eye.<\/span><\/figcaption> ITV<\/i><\/span><\/div>\n

Armitage continued: \u201cThis is much more geopolitical. Something that we recognise, the aeroplane scenario, the confinement, the locked room conceit, which creates a brilliant story.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut again, the brilliant episode hooks that keep you watching \u2013 and actually, in an ITV show, you have to have segment hooks as well, so you\u2019ve got four little hooks and then one big hook to bring you back next time.\u201d<\/p>\n

He added: \u201cThis, to me, felt like a return to the kind of work I was doing on Spooks, with a bit of Bourne and a bit of Mission: Impossible thrown in \u2013 and I think it kind of looks as big as a movie, but you\u2019ve got six chunky episodes to enjoy.\u201d<\/p>

The new series sees Armitage star as Dr Matthew Nolan, a relatively unassuming man who is arrested on suspicion of murdering a woman during a recent business trip to China.<\/p>\n

Ordered to return to the country after travelling back to the UK, Jing Lusi features as DC Hana Li, a British officer who is charged with accompanying Nolan to Beijing.<\/p>\n

But on the flight, she begins to suspect Matthew is in danger when a number of deaths occur.<\/p>\n

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