Glenister - "There’s no way I’ll go naked.. I’m too old now!"
TV veteran Phil Glenister refused an offer to go naked for his latest role — because he’s “too old”.
The actor — 48 today — chose to preserve his modesty in drama Mad Dogs, which begins on Sky1 tonight. But never fear girls, handsome co-stars Marc Warren, 43, and Max Beesley, 39, get their kit off to jump into a swimming pool. Phil told TV Biz: “They went, ‘Who wants to go and jump in there naked?’, and Max was like, ‘Me, kid’. And I was like, ‘There's absolutely no way’. I’m of an age now. I’m past all that. I don’t do nudity any more.”
Phil, Marc, Max and John Simm, 40, play former school pals invited to fly out to Majorca by quids-in old mate Ben Chaplin, 41, to join him at his luxury spread. They are soon out of their depth after getting caught in a world of criminals, drugs and murder. Marc, who thought up Mad Dogs with Phil, said the aim was to make a psychological thriller and not a “four-parter about a group of blokes hitting their 40s and having a jolly-up”.
He said: “That would have been boring. We wanted an undercurrent of something a bit darker. It’s about reaching a stage in life, looking at what you’ve achieved and where you go next. It’s about how normal people deal with a certain situation and how they can implode. If the public expect something laddy or gangstery, they’ll be disappointed.”
Phil, tough guy cop DCI Gene Hunt in Ashes to Ashes and Life on Mars, added: “It wasn’t a conscious decision to make something ‘blokey’. It was just a desire for me, John and Marc to work together.” Phil said one theme of the series concerns ageing — “getting closer to death” he calls it. He said: “When you’re nearer 50 than 40 you really start thinking about it, I can assure you. You become more aware of your health, but you worry less.”
But he has learned to ignore health “experts” and politicians, saying: “They try to frighten you. I remember Billy Connolly’s quote: Just the desire to be a politician should be enough to ban you for life from ever being one. These days it’s more about a glass of wine in front of the fire. I think it would be a bit strange if you were 45 and still trying to be 25. You should embrace getting older as a good thing.” True to his word, Phil stayed in more nights than not during filming on the holiday island. He said: “We had a few nights out, not many. Sometimes you’ve been with each other from 7am to 7pm and you get to your apartment and you just think, ‘I don’t want to see Marc, or John or Max, and they don’t want to see me’. We were lucky enough to have a TV, a bit of tapas and a glass of wine. It was bliss.”
The actor — 48 today — chose to preserve his modesty in drama Mad Dogs, which begins on Sky1 tonight. But never fear girls, handsome co-stars Marc Warren, 43, and Max Beesley, 39, get their kit off to jump into a swimming pool. Phil told TV Biz: “They went, ‘Who wants to go and jump in there naked?’, and Max was like, ‘Me, kid’. And I was like, ‘There's absolutely no way’. I’m of an age now. I’m past all that. I don’t do nudity any more.”
Phil, Marc, Max and John Simm, 40, play former school pals invited to fly out to Majorca by quids-in old mate Ben Chaplin, 41, to join him at his luxury spread. They are soon out of their depth after getting caught in a world of criminals, drugs and murder. Marc, who thought up Mad Dogs with Phil, said the aim was to make a psychological thriller and not a “four-parter about a group of blokes hitting their 40s and having a jolly-up”.
He said: “That would have been boring. We wanted an undercurrent of something a bit darker. It’s about reaching a stage in life, looking at what you’ve achieved and where you go next. It’s about how normal people deal with a certain situation and how they can implode. If the public expect something laddy or gangstery, they’ll be disappointed.”
Phil, tough guy cop DCI Gene Hunt in Ashes to Ashes and Life on Mars, added: “It wasn’t a conscious decision to make something ‘blokey’. It was just a desire for me, John and Marc to work together.” Phil said one theme of the series concerns ageing — “getting closer to death” he calls it. He said: “When you’re nearer 50 than 40 you really start thinking about it, I can assure you. You become more aware of your health, but you worry less.”
But he has learned to ignore health “experts” and politicians, saying: “They try to frighten you. I remember Billy Connolly’s quote: Just the desire to be a politician should be enough to ban you for life from ever being one. These days it’s more about a glass of wine in front of the fire. I think it would be a bit strange if you were 45 and still trying to be 25. You should embrace getting older as a good thing.” True to his word, Phil stayed in more nights than not during filming on the holiday island. He said: “We had a few nights out, not many. Sometimes you’ve been with each other from 7am to 7pm and you get to your apartment and you just think, ‘I don’t want to see Marc, or John or Max, and they don’t want to see me’. We were lucky enough to have a TV, a bit of tapas and a glass of wine. It was bliss.”
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