'Bloodlands' Star James Nesbitt on Playing Traumatized Characters, His Love of Northern Ireland and More

When you hear the name James Nesbitt, you may think of any one of the Northern Irish actor's dozens of film and television roles over the past three decades, including Cold Feet, Peter Jackson's The Hobbit trilogy, Waking Ned Devine, and The Missing. His career has indeed been prolific.

And as we’ve already reported here at Telly Visions, Nesbitt has a starring role in the new BBC mini-series called Bloodlands arriving on Monday, March 15 on Acorn TV. The Jed Mercurio-produced thriller about a detective investigating the apparent return of a shadowy Troubles-era assassin is set and was filmed in and around Belfast.

I got to meet the veteran actor “face-to-face” earlier this week. Seated at a desk in his London home, dressed in a white button-up shirt and sporting distinguished dark-rimmed glasses, James filled me in, via Zoom call, on the long and persistent road to his involvement in Bloodlands.