Behind the Scenes

- I'm Eric Coulter producer in series two of Guilt and we're here in a very cold winter day in Scotland on the very last day of the shoot for Guilt series two.

We're gonna spend the day with the unit and gonna talk to two big stars.

Mark Bonnar plays Max and Emun Elliott who plays Kenny.

- We were all surprised at the reception of series one.

It's a whole conglomeration of things that have to happen and around something being as much of a success as it was.

And whoever was in charge to press the right buttons at times you know.

And it was lovely, really lovely because it was something that we loved so much.

So to see it become something that everybody loved so much was a great joy.

- I mean, the actors are just a tiny part of this you know the whole process, but luckily it was there in the scripts and Neil's writing and the creative team was there.

All the ingredients were there for this to be this beautiful piece of drama.

And I think it absolutely got there, and it actually exceeded my expectations.

- The challenges are living up to delivering what the first series did.

I.e.

It was a breath of fresh air, fantastic writing great performances.

And it showed Scotland in a really unique interesting new way that we hadn't really seen before - In series one, it was a very straightforward sort of attempted coverup of a hit and run and other ancillary things like Max's entanglement with Roy Lynch, and how that affected his relationship with his brother.

That was what drove the whole show basically.

- Max has come out of prison two years down the line and he needs to get his own life back, his old life back as much as he possibly can but he lost his wife.

He lost his brother and it's Max coming out with an agenda.

He wants to get back to where he came from and he wants to do it as quickly as he can and regain the status that he lost for both prison so he's on a revenge question.

- What Neil's done very adeptly is kind of Max's desire to revenge.

What has been done wrong to him by Roy, he's woven now very cleverly into another series of storylines regarding Roy's daughter and something she does.

And then they've the storylines very cleverly all slowly coming together.

Guilt's spoken about a lot in this series still by various people but this show's more really about revenge.

- Kenny's kind of back to square one.

So he spends these two years recovering as an addict going to meetings every day.

He's allowed to see his kids again on the weekends, and he's got his own business.

He's got an HND now in legal services.

So there's been a lot of self-improvement over the course of those two years.

Max reenters Kenny's orbit.

I mean, Kenny has very mixed feelings about Max on one side he knows that Max is bad news, that Max is just out of prison.

But on the other side, Max is a bit of a hero for Kenny.

So Kenny is almost addicted to Max and cannot resist whatever adventure Max wants to go on.

So Kenny and Max end up getting together to form this business partnership.

Max runs the practice.

Kenny works the [mumbling] and all is going very well until a bit of criminality enters the equation.

- The first series was a suburban law whereas this is much more about regeneration but in the middle of the city.

And It's a bit more about seeing more of Edinburgh and making that much more of a character in the show.

I mean there's been challenges we're shooting in the middle of winter here.

I don't know if you can see but we've got the snow plow the small and trying to try to clear the snow.

- I mean, it was challenging in beat up top how the person rate and the wind, but it adds that all adds to the kind of heaviness and of what's going on you know and the sort petition and the underhand stuff.

that we're all at really, and it gets quite dense and quite hard to sort like, what am I doing at this point?

And then I think the atmosphere is a bit like that anyway, all in Max's head.