Such is Tovey’s ability to coax empathy from his audience that you end up rooting for him. He had to “slightly f*** myself up” to play the role of Nathan, who ends up burying the woman in the woods and then marrying her sister in a misguided attempt at atonement. The 38-year-old stars as a happy-go-lucky everyman involved in the death of a young woman.
The ITV series, which airs over four consecutive nights in the lead up to Halloween, is creepy, disquieting and tinged with poignancy.
That would feel good.” Alas, the ghosts that crop up in his new supernatural thriller The Sister aren’t exactly of the Care Bear variety. I definitely have hope that I’ll see my nan and past pets and hang out on a cloud with the Care Bears. I don’t like the idea of dying, and that’s it, black screen forever. I believe in aliens, I believe in ghosts, I believe in ancestors looking after us.” says Russell Tovey, star of Years and Years and Being Human, hugging one knee.
