The Tunnel - First Season English Subtitles

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I think the idea, first of all, that it was going to be directed by Dominik Moll...

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...whose work I've always loved.

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And then when I started reading the script, it was how real both Karl and Elise felt.

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And complex and funny.

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And I loved the fact that there was no romance involved in that.

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That it stayed about the work and about discovering something else in each other.

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Elise's part in itself was such a gift.

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And so different from anything I'd done before.

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No-one keeps a picture of themselves on their desk. You're a twin.

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She lost her twin sister when she was 15, we've decided.

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He is an enigma.

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He's quite scary. He's quite scary to play.

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Because he doesn't have...

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...natural empathy.

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He looks very suspicious of many things, which he may or may not have done.

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But he is capable. And he is dangerous.

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He has a slight Messiah complex. I think he wants to save the world.

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He's got that sort of down and out in Folkestone and Calais approach to life.

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He thinks there are poor and needy people out there...

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the prostitutes and the drug addicts and the asylum seekers that require his help.

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He's a policeman. He's got five kids by different women.

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He comes across on the page, at least, as being a fairly affable sort of bloke.

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You know, fairly easy going.

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Any chance of a coffee?

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Part of his background is this sort of, you know, working man's self-help, self-educated...

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...engaged relationship to the world.

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A sort of desire to be a decent human being in an environment

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which might otherwise be... not conducive to that.

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He's got a lovely wife and two young children.

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His son from the previous marriage has now come to live in this extraordinarily lovely house.

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Danny is a tabloid journalist, very opinionated.

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Very egocentric.

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Is that really what we wanna be saying?
What's wrong with it?

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Don't you think it's more complicated than that?
Er...no.

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He doesn't necessarily even believe it or have that strong a viewpoint on it,

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but he knows he can write things in a certain way that will sell and will titillate people.

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A certain kind of audience.

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Challenge 'em, make 'em think.

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If they wanted to be challenged, they really wouldn't be reading us.

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It's a tall order to deliver a fantastic, 10-episode, multi-authored serial drama.

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To do that with a half-French and half-British team is harder.

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To work for two broadcasters who, you know, are separated by language,

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is potentially challenging.

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But one thing that's really helped us is that the cliches are true.

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A lot of French people speak amazing English.

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A shot from here...

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And we're actually living out the story.

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We are life imitating art on that level.

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It's the first bilingual series with all that that entails.

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The Eurotunnel is the most secured piece of land in the whole of Europe.

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It's extremely complex, a 24-hour operation.

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It's a bit like being on the main runway at Heathrow.

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I have been spending most of my time, really, in the tunnel,

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going back and forth to Paris.

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Until you've been there, outside a train,

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I don't think you realize what a monumental piece of engineering it is.

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Not just Eurostar. It's freight. It's the shuttle.

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It's so much that's going on all the time.

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For us to be given the unprecedented access that we've got...

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Kudos acquired the rights to "The Bridge".

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It's a Swedish/Danish co-production.

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it's a really good example of Scandinavian thrillers, which have become so popular.

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It was character-driven and it was exciting.

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You're always terrified when you do any drama and an adaptation has plenty of challenges,

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cos you know they'll be a hardcore of people going, "It's not as good as the original.

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"Why did they remake it?

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You know you're gonna get that, so you've got to take that on the chin.

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But the one I'm really confident about is,

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we're not gonna suffer from not having "The Bridge" when we've got "The Tunnel".