The Line of Duty actor displays impressive restraint in this series – an adaptation of a novel about a fortysomething who makes a death pact due to his terminal cancer
‘As soon as this gets bad – and it will soon – get me to Switzerland for a Hitler chowdown,” says Tully (Tony Curran) to his best friend Noodles, played by Martin Compston, in Mayflies (BBC One). Hitler what now, ask Noodles’ eyebrows. “Suicide bullet,” explains Tully.
We’re in a pub on the Ayrshire coast where fortysomething ex-teacher Tully, terminally ill from cancer and with four months to live, makes his indecent proposal to his best friend. “Don’t let me die like a prick.”
