![]() While other child actors from the series have spoken of struggling to shake the film’s hold on their CVs, Enoch shrugs off any idea that it was a burden. The 30-year-old cut his acting chops as Dean Thomas in Harry Potter. “I found myself walking around the street, looking at steps and thinking goodness, you’d struggle to get down those in a chair.” I was like, ‘We’ve got to make sure we don’t cock this up.’” Using the wheelchair was “tiring” but “eye -opening”. “You don’t want doctors at home going, ‘Oh, nah, come on.’ I’ve got friends who are doctors, and they wouldn’t let me live it down. ![]() ![]() But there’s something interesting about a story that goes against the current of that and brings it down to something smaller, to what is physically impressive in this context.”Įnoch consulted war veterans and doctors to nail the technical details. We’re used to seeing heroes leap over buildings or clear whole flights of stairs in a single bound in superhero movies, which are fantastic - the kind of stuff I loved as a kid. “Nowadays the expectation for what we consider extraordinary, or what is physically impressive, is very high. Whatever it is, there are these physical challenges.” It invites us to see the world from a different angle, he says. “At the beginning it’s a battle to raise his arm up,” says Enoch. No one is to be trusted, as a medicated McCain tries to differentiate between night terrors and mortal peril. In the BBC series Enoch plays Corporal Jamie McCain, a paraplegic war veteran left wheelchair-bound after being shot in Afghanistan and plunging through a rooftop, then confined to a spinal unit in a murky Glasgow hospital where a killer is on the loose. Indeed, some struggle to heft one over their shoulders. Not all heroes wear capes, says Enoch, the star of the second series of Dan Sefton’s psychological drama Trust Me. ![]() Trust Me actor Alfred Enoch: From Harry Potter to modern hero ![]()
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