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"BBC One&amp;#039;s period-drama-with-bite is back - Ripper Street returns tonight with a series premiere that features addictive opiates, the Elephant Man, dastardly villains, eye-watering gruesomeness and more than one brawl. Ahead of series two&amp;#039;s premiere, the boys of Ripper Street - Matthew Macfadyen (Det. Inspector Reid), Jerome Flynn (Det. Sgt. Bennet Drake) and Adam Rothenberg (Captain Homer Jackson) - talk violence, bromance, Guinness and giggling... Ripper Street series two is &amp;quot;weightier&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;more mature&amp;quot; and comfortable &amp;quot;in its own skin&amp;quot;  &amp;quot;It&amp;#039;s less crime-of-the-week,&amp;quot; says Jerome. &amp;quot;There&amp;#039;s through-lines with all the characters that spread over the eight episodes, which come together beautifully at the end. That&amp;#039;s a really exciting part of it - it&amp;#039;s ongoing drama.&amp;quot; The show remains unflinching when it comes to blood, guts and on-screen violence  &amp;quot;The show is called Ripper Street,&amp;quot; argues Adam. &amp;quot;it would have to be that violent, that hard. It&amp;#039;s life and death. &amp;quot;Usually [shows in] this time period... it&amp;#039;s about a conflict of manners, or class, or people being repressed. But that was maybe 5% of the population - this show is about what everyone else was up to.&amp;quot; &amp;quot;There&amp;#039;s boundaries of taste,&amp;quot; acknowledges Matthew. &amp;quot;But you don&amp;#039;t want to sugarcoat it - otherwise it goes the other way and becomes unbelievable. A bit of blood and guts is alright, I think.&amp;quot; New recruit Detective Albert Flight - played by Being Human&amp;#039;s Damian Molony - is not a welcome addition to H Division  &amp;quot;I won&amp;#039;t warm to the idea of having a new young policeman, because of losing Hobbs in the last series,&amp;quot; says Matthew, referring back to the ultimately demise of Jonathan Barnwell&amp;#039;s fresh-faced copper. &amp;quot;I feel that Flight&amp;#039;s wet behind the ears and I don&amp;#039;t want that on my conscience again. So I&amp;#039;m extra horrible to him!&amp;quot; &amp;quot;I don&amp;#039;t trust him!&amp;quot; adds Adam. &amp;quot;A rat knows a rat, y&amp;#039;know? I think Jackson gets Flight on another level and his radar goes off.&amp;quot; Ripper Street is a bit like Star Trek - honest...  &amp;quot;What I love about Star Trek is that bromance going on between the guys,&amp;quot; explains Jerome Flynn, closet Trekkie. &amp;quot;You&amp;#039;ve got the captain, and the two guys around him who are in love with him and vying for his attention\u2026&amp;quot; &amp;quot;You are a bit like a Klingon,&amp;quot; quips Adam. The Ripper Street lads sunk a few pints of Guinness whilst shooting in Dublin  &amp;quot;I did redevelop a taste for the Guinness,&amp;quot; admits Jerome, though Adam steered clear. &amp;quot;I felt like I would just look like some jerk-off American,&amp;quot; he reasons. &amp;quot;It would be like wearing a Yankee cap in New York.&amp;quot; Giggling on set is a definite problem for the boys  &amp;quot;It&amp;#039;s the dark, high-stakes scenes which are the funniest,&amp;quot; reveals Matthew. &amp;quot;There was one in the first series - we had a lab scene and, at one point, I had to say, &amp;#039;What is in this stomach?&amp;#039; Adam picks up the story: &amp;quot;I had to look at him, look him in the eye, and just go, &amp;#039;Semen, Reid!&amp;#039; - we couldn&amp;#039;t do it. They had to cut it.&amp;quot; Matthew, Jerome and Adam are all hoping that Ripper Street returns...  &amp;quot;You could go anywhere with it, absolutely anywhere,&amp;quot; posits Adam. &amp;quot;That&amp;#039;s what it feels like,&amp;quot; agrees Jerome. &amp;quot;After what happens in this series, there&amp;#039;s no going back\u2026&amp;quot; Ripper Street returns tonight (October 28) at 9pm on BBC One. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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