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" Fresh from starring as Tuck in the sadly-axed Robin Hood, David Harewood is now sinking his fingers into several other pies. Not only will he play Nelson Mandela in an upcoming BBC drama, but he&amp;#039;s also landed a sizeable role in David Tennant&amp;#039;s final episodes of Doctor Who. First up though is Gunrush, a one-off ITV drama about rising gun crime among the British youth. We hooked up with Mr H to find out more. How would you describe the show? &amp;quot;It&amp;#039;s basically every parent&amp;#039;s nightmare. It&amp;#039;s about what really goes on in kids&amp;#039; lives up and down the country. It&amp;#039;s people - particularly young men - trying to escape the traps of street life and trying to walk a straight line and survive. And a perfectly normal, middle-class family is then thrown into that world. Tim Spall goes on a journey throughout the film and uncovers just what it&amp;#039;s like to be a young, black male on the streets of Britain.&amp;quot; How does your character, Robbie, fit into the story? &amp;quot;I&amp;#039;m a former criminal who is now working with youths and trying to keep them on the straight and narrow and out of trouble. I get drawn in because a younger cousin of mine is witness to a crime. I meet him and explain to him the whole idea of the word &amp;#039;gunrush&amp;#039; - the power that comes over you when you get a gun when you&amp;#039;re young. There are issues of respect, and young men are seduced by the power of force.&amp;quot; How does it compare to other roles you&amp;#039;ve done? &amp;quot;I really enjoyed it because it tries to reflect reality. So much television at the moment is popcorn, bubblegum stuff so it was nice to do something hard-hitting. Particularly for ITV to do something like Gunrush - it&amp;#039;s dark, and the prospect of it is very, very frightening.&amp;quot; Have you seen the final cut yet? &amp;quot;Yes, I saw it when it was put together. It&amp;#039;s very powerful - particulary the ending, because Tim Spall is a middle-class, nice guy who - by the end of the film - has been taken on a journey and actually experiences the whole idea of &amp;#039;gunrush&amp;#039; himself. He actually wants to take revenge on the people who killed his daughter. He&amp;#039;s hell-bent on revenge.&amp;quot; How did you feel about Robin Hood coming to an end? &amp;quot;Of course I only did one series but I didn&amp;#039;t feel as though they explored the character - or their relationships - in every direction. It was an exciting character and I was looking forward to fleshing him out, but it wasn&amp;#039;t to be. Onwards and upwards!&amp;quot; How do you think it could have continued without Robin in it? &amp;quot;I have no idea. I think the producers were looking more at the legend [for series four]. Sally Wainwright was pencilled in to write the next series and had been looking very closely at some of the legends. I think she was very excited about setting it more in Sherwood Forest and a more magical place.&amp;quot; Gunrush airs Sunday, August 23 at 9pm on ITV1. &amp;amp;gt; More: David talks Doctor Who in Tube Talk "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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