 Next , Nesbitt reunited with Occupation screenwriter Peter Bowker to star in the ITV medical drama series Monroe , playing Gabriel Monroe . Nesbitt was Bowker 's first choice for the part . Nesbitt researched the role of the <unk> character by watching brain surgery being performed by Henry Marsh , and by consulting Philip Van <unk> at Leeds General <unk> . The series was filmed over 12 weeks in Leeds at the end of 2010 and broadcast on ITV during March and April 2011 . Nesbitt will reprise the role in a second series , which is due to begin production in 2012 . In film , Nesbitt co @-@ stars as Irish writer Jack in Emilio <unk> 's drama The Way , alongside Martin Sheen , Deborah Kara <unk> , and <unk> van <unk> , and has a role as <unk> in Ralph <unk> ' contemporary Shakespeare adaptation Coriolanus . 
