Playing an American was a real challenge

Derry Girls star McSweeney on BBC's jungle jet survival thriller

- BY NICOLA METHVEN TV Editor

Derry Girls' Siobhan McSweeney has ditched comedy for drama, playing an American Trump fanatic in BBC thriller Nine Bodies in a Mexican Morgue.

The six-parter, written by Foyle's War creator Anthony Horowitz, features nine characters who survive a plane crash in the Mexican jungle.

But they begin to die one after another in strange and violent ways and realise there is a murderer among them. Amid flashbacks, viewers see the survivors as they battle to stay alive against heat, a lack of supplies - and each other.