David Morrissey plays a ruthless guy in Britannia

David Morrissey plays Aulus Plautius in the show Britannia. He is an actor and director best known for The Other Boleyn Girl, Centurion, and TV Series, The Walking Dead. A few excerpts from the interview...

He’s a Roman general, a ruthless guy, but he’s also searching for something else. This is a land in which the Romans have been defeated before under Caesar – where they’ve turned tail and gone back to Rome. He’s a man on a mission.

It was dependent on the weather. We started off filming in the Czech Republic in the summer, and it was pretty tough. It was quite heavy and hot. That added to the discomfort, which was good, as the characters felt that so it was a natural fit. But then as we went into the winter months and it became bitterly cold things improved dramatically. I wear a lot of fur stuff so that was welcome. It’s hard to ride a horse with that amount of stuff on, though.

No, I’ve done a lot of horse riding in the past. There are many jobs I’ve had to ride a horse for so it was a joy to do this.

Zoë Wanamaker and I shared a few scenes together. She’s an actress I’ve admired for many years. We did good stuff together on set. There was a lot of banter. Our characters might not be on equal footing, because I have this massive army behind me, but we’re certainly intellectual equals, and there’s something about that that meant I really loved playing those scenes with her.