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\n\tYou\u2019ve probably seen English actor Jason Flemyng in Guy Ritchie\u00a0and\/or Matthew Vaughn\u2018s films, such as\u00a0Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels<\/em>,\u00a0Snatch<\/em>,\u00a0Layer Cake<\/em>,\u00a0Kick-Ass<\/em>, and\u00a0X-Men: First Class<\/em>. You may have seen him in such Hollywood movies as\u00a0Rob Roy<\/em>,\u00a0The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen<\/em>,\u00a0Seed of Chucky<\/em>, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button<\/em>, Transporter 2<\/em> or in small independent films from around the world. Now he is playing the antagonist in one of Britain\u2019s biggest TV dramas, season three of Trigger Point<\/em>, starring Vicky McClure.<\/p>\n \n\tFlemyng stars as Steven Wyles, who is causing the team of Explosives Officer, or Expo, Lana Washington, portrayed by McClure, all sorts of headaches with his sinister vendetta. \u201cSomeone is targeting individuals and demanding revenue,\u201d according to a season three plot synopsis. \u201cWorking alongside the Police Counter Terrorism Unit, the Bomb Disposal Squad race against time to find the bomber before they claim their next victim.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tSeason three of the show, produced by\u00a0Jed Mercurio\u2019s (Line of Duty<\/em>,\u00a0Bodyguard<\/em>) HTM Television, in association with All3Media\u00a0International, which distributes the series internationally, starts airing on ITV1 and STV on Sunday and will be available to stream on ITVX and STV Player.<\/p>\n \n\tFlemyng talked to THR<\/em> about his role and why he always seems to get cast as a baddie.<\/p>\n I told to a friend of mine that you got cast in Trigger Point<\/em>, and he said, \u201cYes, I recognize him. He must play a bad guy!\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n \n\tFlemyng<\/strong> [Laughs<\/em>] Everyone says that. It\u2019s so unfair. I\u2019ve been playing those parts for my whole career, and I think I have been miscast from the very beginning of time until now. But that\u2019s what I do. As soon as you see I\u2019m in it, you know that people are gonna die.<\/p>\n \n\tWhat can you share about your character in season three without spoiling too much?<\/strong><\/p>\n \n\tInitially, we see the victims, we see the explosions, we see the ramifications of his actions, but we don\u2019t see him. It\u2019s a cat-and-mouse game between me and Vicky, which was fun. <\/p>\n \n\tVicky\u2019s someone I\u2019ve admired from a distance for a long time. When you meet people like that, you\u2019re like, \u201cPlease, let them be nice.\u201d And Vicky was exactly as I expected her and exactly as I wanted her to be. It was a happy shoot, and it comes from the top.<\/p>\n \n\tThere are some big dialogue scenes with Vicky that were a joy. In football [aka soccer], if you go on to the pitch with Ronaldo, you look like an idiot, right? But in acting, if you go on to the set with Vicky or Stephen Graham or Brad Pitt or Angelina Jolie, the better the actor, the better you are. Honestly, I\u2019ve been really lucky.<\/p>\n \n\tWhat can you tell us about the dynamic between Vicky\u2019s Lana and your character Steven?<\/strong><\/p>\n \n\tIt\u2019s a classic film relationship between the compassionate copper, even though Vicky is not a copper, but, you know, the compassionate protagonist and my character. The story behind this character is that he is a little man. It\u2019s David versus Goliath. He\u2019s been fucked over by the capitalist system. He is a byproduct of profit, and he\u2019s sick and dying, as a lot of his friends are. He has no way of fighting back. So he takes it into his own hands. It\u2019s a sort of Robin Hood story to a degree.<\/p>\n \n\tVicky\u2019s character understands why he\u2019s doing it, but obviously doesn\u2019t agree with the way he\u2019s doing it. But her character is compassionate and left-leaning, you could say. He does it the wrong way, and she understands why he\u2019s doing it, but can\u2019t agree with the way he does it. There are a lot of those head-to-head things where they discuss that, which is great. Her compassion for him is very understated, but we know it because she\u2019s such a great actress.<\/p>\n \n\tThere are some massive scenes in it, which you definitely don\u2019t get in a film. I have more lines in one scene than I have in whole movies, because there are six-, seven-page scenes. But when you have good dialogue, it\u2019s easy.<\/p>\n \n\tThe writing was working well, and I hope that the audience will have compassion for him because they understand his predicament, and they understand what\u2019s happened to him. I think in modern society, a lot of people feel voiceless, and a lot of people feel like they\u2019re a byproduct of the capitalist system. <\/p>\n \n\tDid you know Trigger Point<\/em> well? What was your reaction to the opportunity<\/strong> to join the show?<\/strong><\/p>\n \n\tThis landed on the desk, and I was like: Brilliant! It\u2019s [shot] in London as well. Double brilliant! I really didn\u2019t have much of an idea about it. I knew Vicky was in it, and I knew that it was Jed\u2019s show. But then when I arrived on it, I knew this was a big deal. Usually, when people ask me what I am doing, I\u2019m like: \u201cI\u2019m making this film about a lesbian sheep farmer in the Czech Republic. And it\u2019s got subtitles in German.\u201d And they\u2019re like, \u201cOh yeah? Great.\u201d But when I said I\u2019m in Trigger Point<\/em>, they were like, \u201cOh my god, yeah, Trigger Point<\/em>.\u201d It\u2019s probably the most popular thing I\u2019ve ever done.<\/p>\n \n\tI\u2019m at an age where my kids are 14, and it\u2019s nice to be on the telly and at home. It sits easy with me that I\u2019m not in Jordan, making a film that not many people are ever going to see. It\u2019s nice to be in London, filming with the people who know exactly what they\u2019re doing in a really tight machine. I have now watched the other seasons, which are great. And I think this year, it\u2019s sort of stepped up another level visually. It looks more cinematic and dramatic. So, I\u2019m really excited to see what people think.<\/p>\n \n\tWill your fans get to see more of you on mainstream TV shows then, maybe even as the hero saving the day for once?<\/strong><\/p>\n I\u2019m with you on that. But the people who are in control need to make those decisions. 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