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"New Primeval star Ciaran McMenamin has revealed that he will play a &amp;quot;physical&amp;quot; part on the show. The actor, who plays new team leader Matt Anderson, told SFX that his character has both a military and a scientific background. &amp;quot;[Matt] has a military background which keeps coming up because he&amp;#039;s been brought in from that end of things, but you also realise he&amp;#039;s got a lot of science going on,&amp;quot; he explained. &amp;quot;The part&amp;#039;s very physical [and] there&amp;#039;s a lot of fighting.&amp;quot; McMenamin explained that the physicality of his new role had been the &amp;quot;biggest challenge&amp;quot; in joining the series. &amp;quot;I&amp;#039;m fit within reason and I&amp;#039;ve done physical stuff before, but not every day,&amp;quot; he said. &amp;quot;It&amp;#039;s a lot of running. We spend half of every episode running, but it&amp;#039;s great.&amp;quot; He jokingly added: &amp;quot;Primeval is healthy. Stop smoking, drink lots of water and run like mad.&amp;quot; McMenamin previously told DS that the new series contains &amp;quot;full-on fight sequences&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;amazing interactions between creatures and humans&amp;quot;. Primeval returns to ITV1 on January 1. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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