Douglas Henshall - ITV interview
There’s some really really great stuff. We find a thing, which looks like it might kind of uncover why the anomalies are happening and also what we could perhaps do about it.
The idea of myths and legends that perhaps these creatures weren’t necessarily mythical and that maybe these anomalies have been happening throughout history, but some civilisations have no way of explaining what they were and so they became gods, but they could just have been creatures coming from different eras, which I really think is very neat.
We end up in the British museum which was such a blast, as the British Museum is probably one of my favourite places in London and to be allowed to be in there at night on your own with all the lights out was quite a trip.
We were there for two nights, but it was fantastic. It reminded me kind of every movie I’d wished I’d been in that takes place in a museum at night.
It's weird how indoctrinated I am, how well behaved I am as a citizen, because you know when you’re there you’re not allowed to touch them and you know that you’re not allowed to touch them is because if everybody touched they’d wear away. So, there was a part of me that really though ‘I’m here. I’m on my own. There’s nobody around to tell me not to, I could hug this kind of sphinx thing if I wanted to, but I was still just too a little bit respectful and didn’t’, but I was kind of disappointed in myself. I thought ‘What are you worried about now? It’s only you.’ But I thought ‘No, I’d still better not touch this thing’.
I think the good thing about Primeval and I suppose that the main thing you have to think about with shows like that is they have to keep re-inventing themselves all the time to keep it fresh and I think that Primeval’s been great in the fact that it’s not scared to do that.
I think we’re established enough now, we’re kind of part of people’s experience of Saturday night. I think with the second series doing as well as it did, I think we’ve got a bunch of people who are rooting for us on Saturday night and that’s a great feeling.
itv.com - March 2009 |
