Bodyguard’s Richard Madden thinks his character David Budd deserves a break after the tumultuous events of season one.
The BBC political series swept across the world and smashed records, and though a season two has yet to be confirmed, the 32-year-old actor reckons there should be a time jump to give his character a much needed respite from body-guarding.
Speaking at an event in Los Angeles organised by Netflix, he said: ‘We’ve been talking about it and I spoke to Jed about a month after the show had finished airing over in the UK and we sat and decided let’s give it at least a year while we work out how to do something better.
‘A couple of things. A, you cannot jump into it. David Budd definitely needs a vacation after that. He’s not going to go back to work, is he?
‘And also he’s the most famous man in London because of what happens at the end of episode six. He couldn’t just go straight back into work.’
He added: ‘And me and Jed both agree that there’s something much more interesting in “let’s catch up with him 18 months later, two years later after this has happened and say where is he now? What’s happened to him?”’
‘And we don’t want to do a disservice to what the first season was, which was new and different, and great and not fall into a formula, so I await the Jed genius to come in with what’s going to be exciting.’
Madden plays an Afghanistan war veteran who suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder and finds work as a police sergeant. He is assigned to protect the home secretary, the Rt Hon. Julia Montague MP (played by Keeley Hawes).
Creator of the series Jed Mercurio recently revealed to the Telegraph that there is still no guarantee that a second season will happen. He told the paper he couldn’t tell fans anything about a second season.
Mercurio continued: ‘We’re still in talks. We’re just looking at the logistics of doing a second one. We haven’t reached the end point of those discussions.’
Later on at the Netflix event, Madden, who won a Golden Globe for his portrayal of Budd, revealed he was ‘absolutely’ excited about playing the character again.
He said: ‘Absolutely, I am fascinated by this character and have been since I first picked up that script.
‘I’d love to get back into his head. If he didn’t have enough going on in his head already, after all this experience, throwing that on top of everything, where does that put this man in terms of his morals?
‘I think there’s a really exciting story in there and I’d be keen to see what Jed comes up with.’
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