![]() ![]() Also Stockton Cricket Club, I’m cricket-mad. “Stockton high street always makes me feel like I’m home, I’ve always loved it. Although only here overnight on this visit, Stephen stopped off to take some flowers to his mother’s and grandparents’ graves in Stockton. With family living in Whitley Bay and plenty of cousins for Daisy, he heads north regularly. People may have nothing but they’d still give you the time of day.” He moved to Scarborough when he was four after his dad got a promotion with Yorkshire Bank but the family returned every weekend to visit relatives. He was born in Oulston Road in Stockton, his grandparents lived around the corner at Windermere Road and his aunty and uncle lived in Grangefield Road. “That was absolutely beautiful and looked amazing,” said Stephen, who now lives in Weybridge Surrey - “close enough to London but far enough away for people to look you in the eye”. Last year some scenes from DCI Banks were shot in Saltburn. ![]() This isn’t the first time he’s filmed in the area. At one point when I was face down on the floor my face was stuck to the floor. “There is a big riot scene which we filmed in Hartlepool until 4am at -14C in February. “Hong Kong was a back alley on Grey Street! The film is semi-autobiographical and based on some of the experiences of writer Arthur McKenzie’s experiences as a police officer in the 1970s. Harrigan is set in Newcastle and Hong Kong in the 1970s and Tompkinson plays the lead character, DS Harrigan. I may be the lead character but it’s only a small percentage of what’s gone into it.” I’ve learned over the years to enjoy the whole thing. ![]() “I know a lot of fellow actors who can’t bear watching themselves but that’s the way I learn about any mistakes and how to iron them out. “I have seen it though,” said Stephen, who has a 12-year-old daughter, Daisy. ![]() He arrived after a special screening at the Dovecot Street venue for a Q&A along with the film’s writer Arthur McKenzie and director of photography James McLeer. The 47-year-old star of Wild at Heart and DCI Banks had a whistlestop tour to his hometown to promote his new film, Harrigan, at the Arc in Stockton. "Ooh, a parmo, I haven’t had one while I’ve been up here but now you’ve mentioned one I’m salivating at the thought," laughs Stockton actor Stephen Tompkinson. ![]()
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