Brenda Blethyn has no plans to quit Vera

OHMYGOSSIP — Brenda Blethyn has put a stop to speculation she’ll quit ‘Vera’.
The 76-year-old actress is returning for the second season of ITV sitcom ‘Kate and Koji’ – in which she stars as seaside cafe owner Kate, who strikes up an unlikely friendship with asylum seeker doctor Koji, who will now be played by Okorie Chukwu after Jimmy Akingbola left to further his career in the US.
And ahead of the new series of the comedy kicking off on Wednesday night (16.03.22), Brenda has insisted this doesn’t spell the end for her popular detective series.
Brenda, who plays the titular role, told Radio Times magazine: “I haven’t got any plans to [leave].
“At the moment, all the time I’m fit and able, I’ll be visiting Vera.”
In fact, the BAFTA winner will be filming more episodes as Detective Chief Inspector Vera Stanhope this month.
She teased: “The first [episode] I’ve read is someone found dead on a boat. So there’ll be some nice locations on that one!”
Filming locations include Newcastle and Northumberland in North East England and Brenda admitted she finds northerners more friendly.
The TV star – who hails from Ramsgate, Kent, South East England – said: “I love it, I just love it – I love the people up there, too.
“There is a difference between the friendliness of the north and the south, I don’t care what anybody says.”
The actress admitted it’s a huge “compliment” that locals are fans of Vera and her Geordie accent.
She said: “That’s the main compliment, really, that the people of the north east like Vera.
“Every two years they have a charity concert called Sunday for Sammy, which helps young people maybe trying to get into the profession as performers. Four years ago, they had a sketch with lots of coppers off the telly and at the end, Vera walks on and honest to God, you could have heard the roof lift off. I was shocked. It was rapturous, and it was just so funny for all of us on stage. It was so lovely, I could have cried.”
The detective series is even a huge hit Down Under.
Brenda added: “I don’t know if you’ve clocked what’s been happening in Australia.
“Season 11 has been going out in Australia on ABC and they’ve scheduled it against the Prime Minister’s [Scott Morrison] address to the nation… and Vera won! There were all these tweets saying, ‘Vera for Prime Minister!’”

Source: VacationHunter.Online

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