Season 7 - likely to be the series' last - is set to begin filming in late summer. That'd be easy though! The director has an enormous amount of things to think about, and if you're playing one part, then what you have to think about is different, and you think about it in a different way. We shot it, but when it came to the crunch, it didn't fit into the story. I don't know if she won it? There's hundreds, there's really hundreds of photographers that I really like. alerts and find out about everything before anyone else. And It was just beautiful too; I ended up asking him what it was like there and if he could give me any tips. There seems to still be tension between them…. As the series progressed, Evans quickly earned the job of an associate producer and eventually got his wished-for moon: the opportunity to direct Endeavour. So, Ludo and Strange represent two different parts of him. Viewers, in general, tend to have a vague idea of what directing entails and how it's spliced together with other filmmaking roles - those of a writer, producer, production designer, DP, etc. The new series starts on New Year’s Eve, 1969 and we find Morse in Venice where he’s gone to see the opera. Is he a job, separate, well-controlled thing? Self-punishment, no? I really like being able to improve. We’re very lucky that we’re afforded that luxury now. "I'll do it for as long as they want me to, but I do know how it ends. Right after that, I went for a coffee - just to get a bit of breakfast 'cause it was, probably, 8am - and I was planning a trip. Photo of Shaun Evans by © Natalia Kutsepova and Nina Kharchenko (2018). The more you direct, the more you see the economy of a gesture. You touched upon the fact that we do see some romance for Morse this series. That’s a place that we keep revisiting, so they had to keep doing it as other productions were working in the house as well. I think, like I said earlier, it's the two sides of the same coin; if you learn to tell the story both as an actor, and a director... and a producer, then you are still telling a story. I mean, a character couldn't come and... Oh, I don't know what I'm saying. It’s fantastic. Sir Richard Worsley (Lady Seymour Worsley husband) in The Scandalous Lady W (Sheree Folkson, 2015), an 18th century drama detailing the scandalous life of Lady Seymour Worsley,based on Hallie Rubenhold's book, The Scandalous Lady W: An Eighteenth-Century Tale of Sex, Scandal and Divorce. There’s no time to find out on the day, but that really appeals to me – I like to know what I’m doing and then do it. Again, look, I think inspiration is everywhere, and we're all, each of us - whether we know it or not - completely influenced by so many things. But I also think that it should be something that's never visible. We're with Shaun Evans, a British actor who plays the title role in ITV's Endeavour series. It’s also important to ask for help. It’s sort of similar to Oxford in a way, and is comparable with the towpaths and the water aspect featured in the series. This is going to change. It’s really useful in the history of his girlfriends and lovers that there’s something that’s not mundane – in fact, it’s the opposite. I never want it to be too easy to return to the character, so this time before we started again, I actually went back to the books and read some of them again. WIN a smile transformation with Invisalign, Here's how you can holiday on an EXCLUSIVE private island, Why Cornwall's CLC Trenython Manor is top of our UK staycation wishlist. And then it turned up again, almost verbatim, in my story. A visual space that you feel an affinity with, perhaps, be it a movie, or a director's style, or an artist's vision that's close to your heart? It’s fantastic. Even though, having watched you work, I would say there's a little bit more of you in him now than it used to be... but I might be mistaken. You become technically more proficient when you're watching things; you just need to do one thing in order to tell that part of the story. Skype Bradford Zone, Send us your stories to tvdesk@bradfordzone.co.uk, Send us your pics to yourpics@bradfordzone.co.uk, Endeavour | Interview with Shaun Evans (Endeavour Morse), Endeavour | Interview with Roger Allam (Fred Thursday), Endeavour | Foreward by Writer and Creator, Russell Lewis, Riviera | Interview with Synnove Macody Lund (Alex Harewood), Riviera | Interview with Gabriel Corrado (Victor Alsina-Surez), Father Brown | Interview with Emer Kenny (Bunty), Riviera | Interview with Franco Masini (Cesar Alsina-Suarez), Father Brown | Interview with Jack Deam (Inspector Mallory), Gym fined over £10,000 for breaches during COVID legislation. Yes, I really liked that. Yeah - this, this, this, this, and this. It was one of those amazing mornings. Russell also opened up to Radio Times about when to expect the next instalment, and also hinted about the upcoming storyline. It’s a gradual thing, but there is an evolution for all of the characters as the times are changing. Don't get me wrong, it'd be nice to play - I am kind of looking for something now, another part to play, but I do feel like time is precious and you ought to look for where and what is going to challenge you. One of the great things about doing something long-form is that you can show people’s little fads and changes. How does it feel to be slipping back into Morse’s shoes? It seems that some of your scenes in Endeavour were self-directed well before you assumed the director's role. 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Or even just a little book, perhaps, of short stories... and maybe the photographs would be accompanied by short stories. Why not the opera? Originally, they asked me for a quote. [laughs] I love being right here right now, that's a part of telling stories, part of writing, part of photography, part of being an actor, part of being a director, it's all about understanding the times, so yes, I do keep abreast of that. Whatever medium it takes, it's good to just enjoy the work and perhaps get something out of it or perhaps not. I love directing because, whereas acting’s quite elusive in its way, – there’s no real right or wrong – with directing, it’s a skill that you can learn how to be better and more economical in telling the story. I thought, maybe there has to have been enough water under the bridge between the two of them that it would warrant that level of aggression. I think so. I got up super early, went into town with my camera to take a few pictures on my way to a talk that a photographer was doing... Susan Meiselas, she's just won the - I don't know how to pronounce it! I don't believe in a sort of mystical - this is just me, personally - "being" you create which then can influence you. It takes you a long time to learn and to get good at a thing, you know? A hair shirt of sorts? And that can only ever be a good thing. We hope the beta will be up sometime late next week. So I think on a purely facile level it's just something new. Directing other actors, learning how to speak to the crew, and how to set up shots and all that - I felt more scared by that, I felt more daunted by that, and I thought... whoa, these are the things that make you go and do that. Why would I not want to be hanging out with these people who I love? It allowed me to think about it in a slightly different way and not make it as easy for myself. How did directing change your view of yourself as an actor and of other actors? Photo by © Natalia Kutsepova and Nina Kharchenko (2018), [Note: Evans directed the visually stunning "Apollo" that juxtaposes - painfully, in high relief and with use of puppets - humanity's reach for the moon and that same humanity's smaller passions, eventually prompting an ever-important question of which is the larger of two. CF Watkins has pulled off the unique trick of creating an album that is imbued with the warmth of the American South as well as the urban sophistication of New York. This is my take on that, this is an idea that I have - without having to turn it into a film or a TV show, or a play, or whatever. When Shaun Evans was recruited to play young Morse, he had been acting for over ten years, yet it's Endeavour that's likely his magnum opus. Oh, that's a good question. And that's marvelous, that all works, but I think you have to take responsibility for the visual way you're trying to tell a story, and that includes a colour palette, which will help you to tell the story in the way that is akin to the vision you had at the very beginning. Hang on for a second, let me just think about it. It's not like you're self-directing, but you do have a strong idea of something. I’m really delighted and grateful that there’s an appetite for it, so I’m very happy to be back and continue with the story. So, you know, why not? " There's something about it which just works for me. You haven't taken an acting job outside of Endeavour for four years now, and I think there were only *two since 2012, why? Endeavour's production design has always been impeccable, but in "Apollo" the environment is elevated to a language rather than just a well-crafted background. [ten seconds of s i l e n c e] You hope, as an actor - or I hope, as an actor - that you create the environment where you can do work that is believable and potentially inspired, right? Maybe it's not very clear to me. That's something I'm up for doing next, to make an exhibition and make a book of the prints that I've done. There’s something unattainable about this woman. I’ve got a new TV show for next year with a director I’ve been dying to work with for ages, so I’m looking forward to starting that, and then I’m also adapting a book.