Andrew Lee Potts Talks Primeval

24 November 2008

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Despite enjoying a career as a child actor Andrew Lee Potts shot to fame in 2007 when he took on the role of Connor Temple in ITV's Primeval.

I caught up with him to talk about series 3 of the show as well as him backinging the Pringles Select campaign and competition.

You have found fame in Primeval and fans of the show are all waiting for series 3 what can we expect from it?

Season 3 erm not everyone makes it they shocked everybody last year by getting rid of one of the central characters, which I don’t think anyone expected, and there’s going to be more of the same really. We don’t want people to be like we know what to expect with this show we want to be like well you don’t, a bit like in the vein of Lost, so it does keep an audience on the edge of their seat plus it’s really really action this year, well next year when it starts.

We are really into doing most of our own stunts now which is fantastic but I have a big Bourne Supremacy car chase so there’s lots of funs to be had, and obviously Hannah is doing a lot more karate kicking and flying about.

The series started back in 2007 what was it about the character of Connor that drew you to the project?

Well I didn’t think that I was right to be honest he was your classic style geek and academic, not that I’m saying I’m not a geek, but I’m definitely not an academic, but that is the way that it was written in the script very nerdy, and I had never played a character like that I had played a lot of baddies.

In fact I have never played that many nice characters so it was nice the casting woman, who I had worked with before, got me in and I was a bit surprised. I couldn’t pronounce any of the dinosaurs, because I have t speak about the dinosaurs all of the time, I couldn’t pronounce anything, especially with my northern accent, I could hardly read anything and I just kind of blagged it I messed around because I didn’t think that I was going to get it and made a lot of jokes.

It kind of worked because they rung back and said ’we like you but we don’t believe anything that came out of your mouth we don’t believe you know anything’ and I was like ’well I don’t’ so they said ’can you come back in and sound more convincing.

So I went back in and I didn’t sound anymore convincing but they felt sorry for me and cast me. I had my little trilby on when I went to the casting and that’s why it made it into the show.

the new series is ten episodes this time how surprised are you by it’s success?

It’s been, I’m really surprised, but from the start of it we haven’t really had much time to do anything else if we are not filming it we are promoting it and now with it opening in America it only gains momentum, plus we have got the toys. So it’s living a Primeval life at the moment and it’s either go with it or go against and we are going with it at the moment, which is great for us.

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