Who Plays Grace In The Long Call: ITV drama The Long Call, based on the novel of the same name by Vera author Ann Cleeves, stars Our Girl’s Ben Aldridge as DI Matthew Venn, a police detective who returns to his childhood home in North Devon after marrying his wife, where he is forced to confront his upbringing in a strict religious community, the Barum Brethren.
The drama, which takes place on the seaside, features a superb ensemble that includes Aldridge, Pearl Mackie from Doctor Who, and Juliet Stevenson from The Village, who plays Matthew’s mother, who has a tough relationship with him. Inspector Matthew Venn, played by Ben Aldridge, is the primary character in the film. This new crime thriller, which is based on the best-selling book of the same name by award-winning mystery writer Ann Cleeves, brings us right into the heart of a small religious community known as the Barum Brethren.
Following the discovery of a corpse on a beach, the people begin to assume that the community was involved in the incident. The inquiry is being led by a former member who has turned detective and is forced to confront his own history in order to get to the bottom of the murder. The Long Call premiered on ITV on Monday, October 25, at 9 p.m. in the United Kingdom. The series will be whittled down to its bare bones over the course of four evenings. The fourth episode will air on Thursday, October 28th, at 9 p.m.
It’s a Long Call stars Ben Aldridge (Our Girl, Fleabag) and Pearl Mackie (Greed, Doctor Who) as DI Matthew Venn and DC Jen Rafferty, respectively, in the role of police detectives. Matthew’s mother, Dorothy, will be played by Juliet Stevenson, while his spouse, Jonathan, will be played by Declan Bennett. Martin Shaw will portray the spiritual head of the Barum Brethren, Dennis Stephenson, and Anita Dobson will portray his wife, Grace Stephenson, in the film.
Dylan Edwards, who will serve as DC, will also be joining them. Ross Pritchard, Pearce Quigley as DCI Joe Oldham, Neil Morrissey as Christopher Reasley, Sarah Gordy as Lucy Cradle, Alan Williams as Maurice Cradle, and Amit Shah as Ed Raveley are among the cast members of the series. Ben, who is a proud member of the LGBTQ+ community, spoke out about his current part, telling Heart.co.uk and other media outlets that he had a personal connection to the character’s journey. It was a crucial moment for me to be performing and connecting to since it was based on things I’d experienced in my own family, such as the difficulties parents sometimes have raising LGBT children.”
“It’s true that our work is sometimes creative, and we must do study in order to acquire tools with which to express and play that role, but this was a very inward-looking experience for me.” “It was incredibly therapeutic to be able to share it with other people in a professional atmosphere, and it felt substantial,” he said. On the surface, The Long Call seems to be a murder mystery, but our four-star review of the show notes that it “stray[s] from the expected road set out in front of it, into lush, fascinating, and potentially unexplored terrain” from episode one.
