In the lead role as Detective Laing is Lesley Sharp, all-round British acting royalty best known for playing the ex of David Thewlis’s drifter in Mike Leigh’s ‘Naked’ and a stack of TV series, including ITV police procedural ‘Scott & Bailey’. Photograph: Channel 4 Kazia Palka as Dubravka Mimica in the Mimicas’ Bristol restaurant Who is the cast of Channel 4’s Before We Die? Season 2 clocks in at five episodes, one fewer that season 1. ‘I was shocked by how much it felt like Costa Rica.’ How can I watch Before We Die?Įpisodes air on Tuesdays at 9pm on Channel 4 or you can stream the whole season now on All4. ‘It was lovely to shoot out there and the location guys found some amazing places,’ says Patrick Gibson, who plays Christian Laing. Standing in for Costa Rica, meanwhile, is Almeria in southern Spain. I love the magic of my craft and this was a good way to bring the series to life.’ Photograph: Channel 4 The coastline of southern Spain stood in for Costa Rica in season 2 It was simple things such as putting double yellow lines on the streets which made it instantly Bristol. ‘We became specialists in “Anglifying” Belgium. ‘Part of the challenge was making Belgium match with the other scenes in Bristol – which was interesting,’ says director Jan Matthys. ‘We were looking for something a little less familiar and Bristol is one of those cities that actually has been used as a backdrop for filming a lot, but you wouldn’t know it because a lot of series are filmed there but not set there.’īut not all of the Bristol scenes were filmed in the UK. ‘We wanted to set it in a port city, as that is important to the drug trafficking storyline,’ adds executive producer Jo McGrath. Photograph: Shutterstock Brandon Hill Park in Bristol features in ‘Before We Die’ ‘We just thought it was such an interesting, quasi-European with all this renaissance grandeur and the sea and the lovely posh Notting Hill-ish type village of Clifton,’ says executive producer Walter Iuzzolino about filming in the city. Sharp-eyed fans with local knowledge can expect to see city landmarks like Clifton’s Grade II-listed Paragon building, Victoria Square, Stokes Croft, Brandon Hill Park and York Road in Montpelier. The series, which is based on a Swedish crime drama, unfolds mainly in Bristol. Photograph: Channel 4 She’s behind you! Lesley Sharp in season 2 of ‘Before We Die’ Where is Before We Die S2 filmed? Season 2 picks up three months on with Christian, newly unmasked as a mole in Mimica operation, the living an idyllic but nervy life in Costa Rica, and Laing officially out of semi-retirement to sort it all out. He’s fallen in love with Bianca, the daughter of Mimica matriarch Dubravka. She’s on the trail of the cocaine-smuggling Mimica crime family, Croatian expats now running the Bristol underground, and has her estranged son, Christian, to worry about. ‘The Full Monty’ actress plays Hannah Laing, a Bristol cop who is coming to terms with the death of her partner, fellow cop Sean Hardacre. During one of these, he lost one of his legs to an IED.Channel 4’s popular crime thriller ‘Before We Die’ is back for a second season, plunging Lesley Sharp back into a mob-vs-cops battle royale as a hard bitten West Country detective up to her neck in ruthless gangsters, sneaky moles and errant sons. As a hybrid, however, neither side fully trusts her, despite her longing for a place to belong. Yaeger plays Dillon Conner, a trained military engineer who has experience on Earth due to his numerous tours of duty to the planet. Although he presents himself as friendly and as a consummate professional, there is an underlying ambition that drives him. Chan-Kent will portray Iara, who is a hybrid alien-human A.I. who acts as a bridge between humans and aliens. RELATED: Netflix Renews Sackhoff's Sci-Fi Drama Another Life For Season 2Ĭhirisa is joined by Dillon Casey, Shannon Chan-Kent and Kurt Yaeger. Casey plays Seth Gage, who is the head of Homeland Security with a mission to take over the alien response now that First Contact has been made. Given his military history and background, Ncube is supposedly highly adept at making crucial decisions during tense and dangerous situations. According to Deadline, Tongayi Chirisa will be joining the show as series regular Richard Ncube, who is described as an experienced, decorated veteran of numerous Earth campaigns.
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