New BBC Three supernatural drama Tatau starts this Sunday.
(Before long, theyre just listing weather systems.)
It keeps you on the edge of your seat.
Layton gets back on message and agrees, I think it really suits BBC Three.
Budgie thinks hes nuts sums up Barklem-Biggs.
Theyre brothers from other mothers as Barklem-Biggs puts it with a laugh.
Kyles the ladies man Budgiethinkshe is but he doesnt necessarily get them but hes fun-loving and charming.
The actors themselves are another reasonTataureally suits BBC Three.
Layton and Barklem-Biggs are just that kind of talent.
Layton is in similar awe of his own acting heroes, the cast of the recently concludedWolf Hall.
Mark Rylance, Anton Lesser, Jonathan Pryce… Mark Rylance is so, sostillinWolf Hall.
Hes having the thoughts in space in front of him and lets all that be caught on camera.
I find that fascinating.
Genre fans can be a rabid bunch, I warn them.
asks Layton, Not yet!
How does it feel to come in on the heels of the recently cancelledIn The Flesh?
Big shoes to fill again, we know that, says Barklem-Biggs, Were confident though.
Barklem-Biggs agrees, Its unexplored territory.
Its not a documentary, Layton reminds me.
They were willing to help out if ever anything was wrong, which was rarely.
Its still fictional, and it takes its own route.
Shedding light onto those stories is something that I dont think anyone has done, continues Layton.
Tataus cast diversity is another selling point for Layton.
The other thing it does is it casts maybe forty people, with two white British actors.
Hes right of course.
You dont see it.
What is more familiar are the shows tropical landscapes.
Because of the setting, says Barklem-Biggs, its gorgeous wherever you look.
He storyboarded everything, hes so detailed, remembers Barklem-Biggs.
If we wanted to see before a scene how he was going to shoot something, hed know exactly.
It was like reading a comic book.
As welcoming as the islanders were, filming wasnt all coconut cocktails and hammocks from the sounds of it.
Layton nods along, laughing When you watch episode eight, we were put through the mill on that.
Physically it was draining, really gruelling.
We were rolling around on the ground getting quite visceral, explains Barklem-Biggs.
We did our own stunts a lot of the time, they put us through the mill, definitely.
But that hasnt put them off returning should a second series be commissioned?
Not a bit of it.
Watch a brief trailer below.
