Interviews
David Tennant on Keeping the Secrets of Broadchurch Season Two
How did it feel to be back in West Bay?
I loved being back in West Bay. A lot of people assume we film the whole thing in Dorset but of course we don’t. We film the beach scenes, anything to do with water down there everything else in London for interiors and we use locations around Bristol but West Bay is the location that everyone recognises – the Jurassic cliffs (that poor Danny was found at the bottom of in season one) still feature prominently in season two, we’ll see the police station again and other locations audiences have seen before. We always enjoy coming back here – this is where Chris Chibnall our writer lives, so he writes to his locale.
Is it getting harder to keep the Broadchurch secrets?
No, I don’t think it has got any harder to keep the secrets. I think it frustrates those around you but I am well practised at not giving anything away; withholding everything. I don’t mind it. I quite like being the holder of secrets. I get frustrated if I’m the one that doesn’t know them, but happy to be in the slightly superior position of knowing what comes next…