BOLTON will be back on the small screen next week — as new political thriller Cobra starring Hollywood actor Robert Carlyle gets underway.
The Trainspotting star was spotted filming in the town for the Sky One series last summer.
The 58-year-old plays prime minister Robert Sutherland in Sky’s political drama.
Cobra follows the British government during a national emergency as the nation loses power, and questions whether a team of Britain’s leading experts, working under the name COBRA, can save society from collapse.
The drama sports a stellar British cast with Carlyle as PM, Victoria Hamilton as his Chief of Staff and David Haig as the Home Secretary.
The six-part series will premiere on Sky One — with all episodes also released on Now TV on Friday next week.
Speaking ahead of the launch, Carlyle joked that he thought the title referred to a snake rather than the name of a meeting room — Cabinet Office Briefing Room A.
“I thought it was a script about a snake,” said the star. “I didn’t know that much at all.
“I spoke to a couple of Scots politicians who told me about it. It’s convened quite a lot, these things happen the public don’t know. So that was new for me.”
The actor also revealed that making the six-part drama made him sympathise with what prime ministers go through.
Asked if he had sympathy with what they have to do, he said: “Prior to doing this I had absolutely zero I would think.
“But during that time I remember Theresa May was going back and forward to Brussels and she was ageing five years by the week while I was making this and I felt for her.
“Of course she’s got a life, she’s got problems, the stuff we all have going on in her lives. I felt for her as a human being.”
Bancroft, forthcoming Channel 4 drama Boys, and ITV hit Cold Feet are among the other high profile television shows to have used Bolton as a location in the past 12 months.
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