he says, but interviewing Luke Newberry isnt annoying in the least.

Yorgos Lanthimos, who madeThe LobsterandDogtooth, is his choice.

Or Olivier Assayas, who madePersonal ShopperandClouds Of Sils Maria.

See what I mean?

He wants to get things right.

Newberry, 27, is already getting a lot right.

Im asked every single day, either in the street or online, if its coming back.

So is it coming back?

It was left on a cliff-hanger… All I know is that there are writersDominic Mitchellwilling to write it.

I dontthinkits coming back but who knows?

I hold a hope that maybe one day wed get a chance to finish the story.

He has a film coming out soon calledDusty And Me.

Its a feel-good indie set in 1977 he explains.

Classic wooing technique, Newberry laughs.

Newberrys most recent role also finds him attempting courtship.

He plays Private Todd Merman, a soldier with the Canadian army, in BBC Radio 4sHome Front.

I find it quite exciting that the events unfold daily, says Newberry.

Its like re-walking the steps of the time and putting it in a familiar setting.

It definitely helps you connect to it.

Hes in uniform and thinks hes being charming and its all wonderful.

Hes trying to woo a girl called Jessie and then all is not as it seems!

It sounds as thoughHome Fronthas been something of an education for Newberry.

There were ninety people dead from that one bomb.

Radio I always find does feel like Im coming back to something.

I remember me and my mum being thoroughly amused all day and thinking how great it was.

That was the job that sealed the deal for me in terms of what I wanted to do.

There was no going back after that.

The three of them became my sort of surrogate parents.

Paul Bettany played my dad and they really looked after me.

They were the best people to do a film with at that age.

Was it love at first sight, going on a film set?

There was the magic of escaping about it.

It was like wow, this is not confined to…

I can develop this potentially into a career.

Now that it has happened, does that sense of magic fade?

Once acting has become a job?

Sometimes you go in and the little boy in me goes oh my gosh!

I get excited about scenery, things like that.

Does he ever get star-struck working with veteran actors?

Newberry laughs when I bring it up.

Come on, I tell him, you played Young Policeman, dont sell yourself short!

I was sort of a bit bewildered and didnt know what I was doing, but it was fun.

It was really fun.

Moffat and Gatiss arent the only UK screenwriting stars on Newberrys CV.

Is he a Bronte fan?

Well, Im a big Sally Wainwright fan!

Sallys vision for it felt very fresh.

It was a very special job.

It really spoke to people in quite a strong way.

Poems, he agrees.

Someone gave me some plays they thought I might like.

What sort of poetry would NewberrysIn The Fleshcharacter Kieren, like?

Philip Larkin, perhaps?

Yes, yes, he agrees.

Were not saving the world, but at the same time it really affected people.

Its always just so lovely to know that its reached people, especially young people.

Not only young people though, I cough.

It seemed to resonate on quite a wide scale.

I think because it was rooted in such reality, that sort of suburban daily life.

It was bringing something that was fantasy in genre into our living rooms.

We spend so much time in Kierens living room, in situations that we all relate to.

I think that was part of its ability to connect.

Conversation drifts, as it invariably does when Im a participant, towards David Bowie.

I rattle through some quick-fire questions to finish.

Given the chance, whose career would he steal?

Mines Mary, I say.

I played Angel Gabriel.

I played a Wise Man, but never Mary.

I was Gabriel as well!

I was quite pleased with that.

It did kill your arms though.

I had to stand for a long period of time with them outstretched.

you might sort of see it, cant you?

Luke Newberry as an archangel, in pain.

Listen toepisodes of BBC Radio 4s Home Front, on BBC iPlayer, here.

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