Scots actress Lauren Lyle has established herself in many roles – a fierce friend in costume drama Outlander, a peace protester in submarine drama Vigil and as detective Karen Pirie.
So the prospect of being a manipulative, opioid-addicted psychopathic anaesthetist felt like a reasonable next step.
“I loved the idea of playing someone a bit evil and manipulative. I also loved the weirdness and spookiness of the way the story plays out,” she says.
Lyle fronts the BBC’s new six-part psychological thriller, The Ridge, which airs this week.
Filmed on location between New Zealand and Scotland, it sees Lyle’s character Mia Beaton head to New Zealand to attend her sister Cassy’s wedding.
But things take a turn when she arrives to find Cassy has died after falling from a mountain ridge. Believing Cassy was pushed and murdered, Mia sets about hunting for the killer.
