Timothy Spall's new crime drama was fully filmed in Wales

If the former star moves into the city of a police crime issue, the local detective real-life can hardly believe her happiness.

This is how the action of the new comedy crime-dramas Death Valley of the BBC begins, which was completely rotated in Wales and in which Timothy Spall and Gwyneth Keyworth represent an unlikely rect.

Wales has become a popular goal for film and television production in recent years, but often stands for other places.

However, the campaign in Death Valley is firmly in Wales – albeit in a fictional city – and includes the culture and landscape of the country.

“It is nice to hear how Welsh is spoken … it is also a kind of celebration of Wales,” said Spall.

Spall portrays John Chapel, the favorite television figure by Det Sgt Janie Mallowen, played by Keyworth.

Det Sgt Mallowen Idolise Chapel after his TV show Caesar helped her with one of the darkest times in her life.

But it begins to discover that the chapel, the man, is not quite with the chapel, the actor.

The show's writer, Paul Doolan, admitted to being a “a bit obsessed with murder mysteria”.

“I liked the idea of ​​a TV actor who played a detective, a fan of you and the unpleasant relationship, but I couldn't really about what was otherwise funny.

“Then I thought, 'What if you solve murders?', What is really meta and then started planning it.”

In the show, Spall's character comes across Det SGT Mallowen for the first time when his neighbor is murdered and she arrives to investigate.

“All relationships, you need this conflict, you need to give missions there and you need a performance dynamics,” said Doolan.

“If he is famous and a fan, you just have to know and immediately you get what all this dynamic is.

“The physical differences, the generation differences, it is English, it is Welsh – there are just so many opposites together and let each other spines each other.”

Apart from a role of the 1980s in a BBC game for today as a “rural police engraver, which had to do the whole work”, was the spall, star of MR Turner, Harry Potter and the legendary Barry in a listed pet, who has never been in a “Whodunnit”, and have not accessed much in this vein.

“But when they are great, people love them,” said Spall on set in Cardiff.

“What I love about it is that we do all of this. There are moments in which they are aware that it is a Whodunnit, but it is undermined by the eccentricity of the duo and the circumstances in which they are.

“Paul was meticulously in how everything is planned. So really if you don't like a comedy or you don't understand it, you have that [crime]And if you like comedy and don't get the crime, you have that too. “

As an actor who played an actor, Spall “gave some opportunities to illustrate this demanding side, and when I take the mick out of someone I was,” he laughed.

He was full of praise for his co-star Keyworth, for outsiders and hidden fame, whom he had met for the first time when she killed in a western end production by Till a Mockingbird alongside Pall's son Rafe.

“I thought bloody hell, she is good. Then a few years later we were here in this strange double act,” he said.

Her character, Det SGT Mallowen, is “very practical,” he said, adding: “She is process -related, she is a policewoman and has to go through all sorts of things.

“They are very open to the point of rude and offensive, but they are always dependent on each other. They will never admit that they have an affection for each other.”

Behind the humor there are darker sides on the show.

Det SGT Mallowen lost her best friend of suicide at the age of 18 and the drama shows how she deals with this trauma.

Keyworth from Aberystwyth believes that many people can refer to use escape television to cope with difficult times – like their character with Caesar.

“It is as if her hero had come home to burden herself, but then she has to deal with the reality of [Chapel] Is not actually Caesar and can actually be a bit annoying.

“They have both been really lonely for a long time and there is a measure of related spirits.

“Then there is too much comedy because they have very different approaches.”

“Many pretty whale”

The part -time line -up includes Gavin and Stacey's Steffan Rhodri, Sian Gibson by Peter Kay's car share, Alexandria Riley from Silo and the murder Pembrokeshire as well as additional writing by the comedian and actor Sian Harries.

“These brilliant Welsh actors appear every year,” said Spall.

“It is nice to hear how Welsh is talking. It is nice to have the whole lilde to have this wonderful sound. It is also a kind of celebration of wales.”

Both Spall and Keyworth were fulsoms about the miracles of the Welsh landscape, with Spall the convenience and speed of the transition from the BBC studios and urban locations such as Insole Court in Cardiff to rural, such as the Bannau Brychein National Park, for which films.

“We see a lot of pretty whale [in the show]”, said Keyworth.

“There is an episode with a hiking group that we see some really, really picturesque places that you simply make you go, Wales is so beautiful. There is a waterfall that is particularly breathtaking.”

The coastal city of Penarth in the Glamorgan valley also receives a scream.

Keyworth adds with a laugh: “I love a pier that comes from Aberystwyth.”

Death Valley is on BBC One and broadcast BBC iPlayer From Sunday, May 25th at 8:15 p.m. BS.