So there’s a storyline that runs through the six - so you’ve got six whodunit, sort of A plots in each episode, but you do have this kind of B plot thing that runs through the six, and there is a bit of a reveal in the last episode about Pearl’s family life and something that happened when she was a kid… That is a potential storyline for another series, perhaps? But you do find out a lot about Pearl’s father. You don’t find out about Charlie’s father in this series. “You find out a lot about Pearl’s father. With her mentioning of backstory, I asked Kerry if viewers would learn about any of the history between Pearl and the father of her son, Charlie (the latter played by Rohan Nedd of Safe), since we discover something about the woman in Mike’s life. I mean, it’s quite hard to verbalize the acting process, because it’s more about percolating feelings and finding her tempo and what makes her tick.” Once I got a sense of it from the book, I did put that down and put that aside to organically grow it from the inside out. “Yeah, I did, but I went more with my own instincts. So how did Kerry create the character of Pearl? From where did she draw inspiration - The Whitstable Pearl Mystery (the first novel in the book series), the scripts…? And also, TV shows take things in a slightly different direction, so we’ve used some of the plots from the books but also some have been created for the show.” But I didn’t read any more, partly because once you’ve kind of created the character in your head, you don’t want anything else to interfere with that. “ I read the first one, which obviously sets up a lot of the characterization for Pearl and Mike and their backstory and their relationship. And then when I looked them up, I discovered this hugely successful mystery novel series that is very beloved by a lot of people… I hadn’t heard of them before I signed on to the show. When asked if she’d read the “Whitstable Pearl” books before signing on to the show, and then before filming started, Kerry replied: Some actors read the books on which their shows are based others don’t. (Some text has been edited for clarity and to prevent spoilers.) The books became the launching-off point of my chat with Kerry, who was an utter delight to speak with. (Acorn TV provided screeners for the first two Whitstable Pearl episodes, which formed the basis of many of my questions for Kerry.) The series is based on the much-loved “Whitstable Pearl Mysteries” novels by Julie Wassmer, of which two have been adapted for the show, with the remaining four episodes in the six-episode first season being original stories. The two don’t get on at first but start to, as they find common ground in the murders and other suspicious crimes taking place in the picturesque 16th century town. It is on her home turf that Pearl meets Detective Chief Inspector Mike McGuire (played by The Musketeers‘s Howard Charles), a rather surly copper just transferred from London to be the new Kent police chief.
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