AVENGERS ASSEMBLE

Martin Compston, Aimee-Ffion Edwards and Meera Syal discuss comedy-drama series The Revenge Club, that sees an embittered divorce support group go off the rails. By LYNN RUSK

- LYNN RUSK

Line Of Duty actor Martin says: “It's a bit out of my comfort zone. I've never really done much comedy, because I wouldn't really say I have comedy chops, I can play the straight guy, but that was really the comfort thing, when you see people like Meera and Sharon cast who have got funny bones, it just felt like something that was really exciting.”

The 41-year-old Scottish actor adds: “I've not done a lot of theatre, so I’ve been in jobs where you're really close you know, those two or three main actors and you become a team, but I've not been part of an actors gang, so when there was the six of us sitting round that pub table, you went ‘this must be what it’s like to be in theatre; so I’m chuffed to bits to be involved in it”

Speaking about his character, Martin says: “Calum, like everybody in the show, is going through a divorce, so he’s going through a rough spot in his life, and basically his whole life revolves around his daughter who's slowly slipping away from him into this other life. So he’s like a lot of people in the show, just a bit broken.