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"Strike Back is returning to Sky1 - and if you&amp;#039;re looking for an action-packed, adrenalin-fuelled thrill ride, you could do a hell of a lot worse than Philip Winchester and Sullivan Stapleton&amp;#039;s high-octane drama series\u2026 But, now in its fourth series, there&amp;#039;s a few changes in store for Strike Back - not only is Robson Green joining the regular cast as SAS legend Philip Locke, but we&amp;#039;re going to see a softer side to Scott (Stapleton) and Stonebridge (Winchester).  &amp;quot;You see more of a vulnerable side to Scott this series,&amp;quot; Aussie star Stapleton confirms. &amp;quot;There&amp;#039;s a definite change - it&amp;#039;s almost like he&amp;#039;s growing up\u2026&amp;quot; Both Stapleton - &amp;#039;Sully&amp;#039; to his friends - and Winchester were keen that their characters be portrayed as &amp;quot;humans&amp;quot; and not &amp;quot;superheroes&amp;quot; in this latest run of Strike Back. &amp;quot;They have to be vulnerable, they have to be broken, they have to have a whole slew of things that make them people,&amp;quot; insists Winchester.  &amp;quot;You&amp;#039;ve got to care for these guys and there has to be a possibility that they&amp;#039;re going to get killed or maimed. We don&amp;#039;t want to be in a show that&amp;#039;s just blunt force trauma - you&amp;#039;ve got to care about the people.&amp;quot; &amp;quot;We can all blow s**t up and kill people - that&amp;#039;s the easy part,&amp;quot; Stapleton adds in agreement. &amp;quot;But we&amp;#039;re trying to add some realism and more human elements to these dudes - that&amp;#039;s the struggle.&amp;quot;  But while the sex scenes may have been &amp;quot;toned down&amp;quot; this series, the action certainly hasn&amp;#039;t and there&amp;#039;s still plenty here for Strike Back fans to enjoy - in fact, Shadow Warfare is the first series that&amp;#039;s been devised with the show&amp;#039;s growing fanbase specifically in mind\u2026 &amp;quot;There&amp;#039;s been a shift in wanting to make a show for the fans that we have now,&amp;quot; Winchester explains. &amp;quot;Keeping it Strike Back, but making it interesting and not just the same, which can happen in a third or fourth season.&amp;quot;  One big change this year is the aforementioned addition of Green, who stars as the new head of Section 20 - Stonebridge and Scott&amp;#039;s boss - an apparently &amp;quot;upstanding&amp;quot; man with a &amp;quot;corrosive secret&amp;quot;. &amp;quot;Robson Green - various number one singles\u2026 does a show about fishing\u2026 we heard it all,&amp;quot; grins Stapleton. &amp;quot;It was day one - ten seconds in. &amp;#039;Have you heard my song? Google me&amp;#039;.&amp;quot; However, Green insists that he has contributed more to Strike Back than on-set singing sessions.  &amp;quot;I was hanging out of a helicopter firing an M-32 grenade launcher at a terrorist cell!&amp;quot; he recalls. &amp;quot;There is a bit of action for me\u2026 but running to me is defined as a stunt. Last time I did anything military, it was in Soldier Soldier!&amp;quot;  You&amp;#039;ve got to adapt to survive, Stapleton and Winchester both agree - and with Strike Back revamped and looking better than ever, the pair both say they see no reason why the series couldn&amp;#039;t continue for many years to come. &amp;quot;We&amp;#039;re still having fun after three years,&amp;quot; Stapleton says. &amp;quot;I&amp;#039;ve heard of those casts that don&amp;#039;t get along - I&amp;#039;d be out. We&amp;#039;re in every scene together - if we didn&amp;#039;t get along, we&amp;#039;d be f**ked!&amp;quot;  If Strike Back does return for a fifth series, the pair promise that it&amp;#039;ll keep on changing - and expanding... &amp;quot;That&amp;#039;s a huge challenge, &amp;#039;cos we&amp;#039;re three years in,&amp;quot; acknowledges Winchester. &amp;quot;There&amp;#039;s been a lot of crazy storylines and crazy stunts - and we&amp;#039;ve got to keep thinking outside the box.&amp;quot; Strike Back: Shadow Warfare begins on Monday, October 28 at 9pm on Sky1. The first episode is also available to watch now via SkyGo. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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