BBC This City Is Ours star pays tribute to Sean Bean, 65, with touching statement ahead of series debut
BBC This City is Ours actor Jack McMullen paid a heartfelt tribute to co-star Sean Bean ahead of the latest series airing tonight.
The series follows the story of Michael Kavanagh (played by James Nelson-Joyce), a man who for all of his adult life has been involved in organised crime.
But for the first time in his life, Michael is in love. For the first time in his life, he sees beyond the day-to-day, he sees a future: something to win and something to lose – Diana Williams (Hannah Onslow).
Viewers will follow Michael and Diana’s love affair, set against the disintegration of Michael’s crime gang.
For years, together with his friend Ronnie Phelan (Sean Bean), Michael has successfully been bringing cocaine into the City and beyond, directly from Columbia; but when a shipment goes missing, then he knows their Kingdom is under attack.
The series explores what happens when Ronnie’s son Jamie Phelan (Jack McMullen) decides he wants to inherit their kingdom and that there is no longer a place for Michael at the table.
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Both Michael and Jamie have bold ideas to modernise the gang and they will battle for control of it. But Michael’s biggest battle will be to save the woman he loves and the child he has always wanted.
The story follows themes of family and love, destroyed and corrupted by ambition, pride and greed.
McMullen, who stars closely alongside Bean, recently discussed what it was like to work with the Game of Thrones star and was left taken back when hearing about the positive comments he had received.
When told that Bean said that himself and James Nelson-Joyce are multi-talented stars of the future, he noted: “That is high praise coming from him.
“That is typical of Sean – he’s so supportive, he’s one of us. I grew up watching his work but he’s a very humble man and a team player.
“People like Sean are the type of actors you want with you in a series of this scale. He is a phenomenal actor.
“James is one of my closest friends and we’ve known each other for years. We met at a football game in London and worked at the same gym together.
“We were still cutting our teeth back then and would have never dreamed we’d end up doing a job like this together.
“I’m also really good friends with Bobby Schofield (Bonehead) and a few of the other cast, which was a real advantage.
“When you start a new project you are usually thrown together with strangers and have to bond quickly, so it really helped that there were relationships there already.”
When describing the recurring themes of the new drama, McMullen added: “Loyalty. Betrayal. Ambition.
“We spent many months filming in Liverpool and Spain to bring the series alive, and I am over the moon with what we have all achieved. I hope audiences will be too.”