Unveilers: star reveals what remains to be done to Iain after his end

Well, is not that so emotional?

Tonight's episode of Casualty is a remarkable episode that examines paramedical Iain Dean's mental health journey after attempting to end his life in February.

For a month, Iain worked as a call manager at Ambulance Control. He hasDuring the episode, he responded to numerous phone calls, helping a police officer in a carbon monoxide poisoned warehouse, helping a girl and her family stay safe while her house was on fire, he was helping a woman give birth to twins while she was stopped on a highway with her girlfriend, and he helped save the life of police officer Rox after she got herself found herself in a vulnerable position and almost ended her life.

So, how was it to film the intense closing scenes of the episode? And why was Iain so unwilling to see his therapist? Metro.co.uk spoke with Michael Stevenson who plays Iain Dean to discover this and many more …

In the episode of tonight, Iain can not believe that seeing a therapist is helpful, and he also said that he thought "talking is overrated". After all he has gone through, why do you think he always feels that way? Does he have a negative approach about this maybe?

For him, this is not a negative approach, I think for Iain and as for all of us, our attitude towards life has been rooted in us since childhood. For Iain, his attitude towards problems, personal problems, has been clearly rooted in him since his childhood, because he has not had other mentors to tell him the opposite.

I understand what you mean. Since his mother was an alcoholic and then Iain joined the army, he had to be the mentor or role model himself.

He would never call his mother a model, but she has a certain influence, and this influence has certainly affected his way of talking about this stuff – talking about his problems and putting things on the table.

Even though Iain speaks quite frankly and tells the story, when it comes to personal problems, he has never had anyone in his life to influence him other than to lock him up and move on thing. And I think for that reason, talking is a very difficult thing for him to do.

No matter how many times people tell you that you can, even if we have a glimpse of "Yeah it could help", there is always a discomfort that comes with it because it's not in your DNA do it.

For him, at this stage and this episode in particular, Iain is completely embarrbaded to find himself in this situation – this was never part of his plan. Coupled with his attitude of "pinching the carpet", he is now embarrbaded to face the consequences of what he has tried to do and how it affects his family and friends.

Gem has a hard time accepting Iain's suicide attempt during a previous episode, and we see in tonight's episode that she confesses to Iain that everything has been badigned to her. . Do you think that surprises Iain by his frankness? ?

Yes. Their relationship is very close, I think that even though Iain and Gem have lived in the past year, they have definitely moved closer and the same thing still applies to Gem, because they are not the kind of brother and sister who open up and talk about their problems to each other. If they ever talk about their mother, they are just comments, they never really sat down to badyze their past.

And again, this was never part of the plan, so sitting in front of her sister who now has to lead the conversation into an area he would never enter, the embarrbadment only gets bigger, is his junior. sister whom he has always been cared for and mentored and who has tried to be strong – the roles are reversed. Iain is more and more embarrbaded, as is stress and pressure, which aggravates the fact that he is in this situation.

By doing this, see how Gem is and how it's affected, the result of what he's been trying to do, and who, along with the calls he's getting in the call center, are a scary reminder of what 'he did. people affected far more than he would have allowed himself to think.

There are other people who have problems with their problem and who need help, and as he reminded her of this by sitting down at the dinner table with her sister and at the calls What he takes in the call center, he recalled how pleasing he is for help needs and this can only help him realize how much he needs this help. It must begin with itself.

How was it to film the scenes where Iain tries to help Rox get off the bridge in tonight's episode? These are scenes quite intense, did you do something to turn off then?

Well, we filmed the scenes from the last week before Christmas, so everyone and all the team members were trying to get in the Christmas spirit! I often heard, as soon as they shouted "cut off", that someone was bringing speakers and was playing Christmas music and was trying to be a little cheerful!

There was also a good joke between me and the crew, all the calls you're looking at [in tonight’s episode] were recorded live and in one take, there were 12 minute takes and we did not do them in the sections we did them in full phone calls. We had the other actor in a different room, so the phone call and everything else was a live recording and it was to be taken.

Since it was a 12-minute shooting and we normally perform a minute or two, all camera operators working with very heavy cameras and microphone operators had to keep some heavy equipment for 12 minutes at a time! As soon as they shouted off, you saw their faces lower – it made me laugh every time!

Every time I watch the end scenes, it makes me so emotional. Was it difficult because you did it as a character but you also talked to the audience at the same time?

It makes me so emotional! The problem is that this episode completely completes the work I have done over the past year. Normally you can do an average episode and forget about it and move on, while this one, because there has been such a continuation of the script, I know everything about it. I know it backwards.

I was very involved in the storytelling, the ideas and the sequence of things, the series was fantastic to allow me to participate freely in this project. I know him thoroughly and this episode written by Barbara Machin, she saw all the episodes, so she knew it thoroughly. I think everything is in this final scene. I think for me in this last scene, if you want to talk about a bow, it's the kind of end of this bow. Where he comes from and where he is now. This would certainly be the end point of this arc.

I guess it kind of reflects "we're here, it's time to improve."

It's a complete turning point, what he's doing at that time and what he's doing at that time, and the effect it's having on him mentally and physically means he's exhausted after that call telephone.

This phone call is also a reflection of how he is drained after a sentence of several years to live what he has lived. That speaks for itself, it was a good thing to go out of the way in that kind of things we never know how they are going to happen and that sort of thing, but fortunately that the actress spoke to us and that I & # 39; During the year, we did enough work to find out exactly where the character was at that time, and that's the result.

This is not the end of Iain's trip. Next week he returns to work on the ambulances. Will it be a success? Or will Jan and Ruby have trouble communicating with Iain?