Getting Dirty For Chocolate And Crisps

It's safe to say love scenes are not most actors' favourite part of the job. Getting naked with a relative stranger can be nerve-wracking enough so having a whole TV crew watching must make it extra hard. But Andrew Scott, best known to fans of Sherlock as consulting criminal Jim Moriarty, has a secret weapon for ensuring a solid performance – chocolate. In his latest TV project, ITV1 series The Town (airing early next month), Scott plays a young man returning to his home town after a decade away. There he rekindles a romance with his first love, played by Charlotte Riley – and the actor admitted things get a little steamy between the pair.

Speaking in the Radio Times, Scott admitted: "There is an element of roooomance – yes, there is. I do get my kit off. I do." What, everything? "Well, no, I don’t think the audience need to see that! I don’t think they’d want to see that. But there’s definitely a bit of that." Scott revealed that he and Riley gave themselves a reward for completing the scene in question: "I had a Double-Decker Duo and a packet of giant buttons after it. Charlotte had a packet of Monster Munch."


Picking up the thread, Riley explains we're first introduced to her character when Mark is trying to just kind of drink his way through something that has happened. happened. "He’s gone to the pub and then suddenly you just see her in the background and it’s kind of strange for him because you assume that he hasn’t been back to this town for years; he’s assumed she moved away, but his childhood sweetheart is just suddenly still there and still very much present and part of the town and his memories," she tells TV Choice. "So you just see a tiny glimpse of her out of the corner of his eye so to speak, and then she goes off and he runs after her and she disappears into the night. And then he goes round to her house hammered because she’s the only person he still feels he might have a connection with. She’s now married and has a child, but he doesn’t know this and turns up really drunk to try and talk to her. She’s not really in a place to be taking on his personal problems, but there’s still a spark between them. Of course there is, or there wouldn’t be a drama!"

So, when you watch that particular scene in question and see the passion in the two actors' eyes, just remember it's not each other they're lusting after – its chocolate and crisps.