‘Gone,’ ‘Tip Toe’ Star David Morrissey on Relying on Gut Instinct: ‘Analysis Can Be Paralysis Sometimes’

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British actor David Morrissey tries not to think of the audience when making TV shows “but once you push the boat out of the harbor you’re just praying and hoping that people like it,” he tells Variety at the Monte-Carlo Television Festival.

As the star of ITV’s hit thriller “Gone,” which is in competition at the festival, Morrissey doesn’t have a magic formula for TV crime shows, “but you have to care about the people,” he says. “They have to connect with you personally and once that happens there’s a magic thing. It’s like you’ll make a souffle 14 times and then one time it doesn’t rise, but all the ingredients were the same.”

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