Unforgotten stars Sanjeev Bhaskar and Sinead Keenan appeared on This Morning (Image: ITV )
Unforgotten star Sinead Keenan admitted that she almost turned down her role on the ITV hit series because of one reason. The popular drama made its return to our TV screens this week and the actress reprised her role as DCI Jess James. Sinead took over playing the lead detective in the series in 2023 from Nicola Walker who played DCI Cassie Stuart.
However the star revealed that she wasn’t keen on staring in the show at first as she felt the ‘pressure’ of taking over from Nicola when she appeared on Monday’s (February 10) episode of This Morning alongside Sanjeev Bhaskar as DI Sunny Khan.
Host was quick to ask: “Am I right in saying you initially turned down the role because you couldn’t see yourself following in the footsteps of Nicola Walker.”
Sinead went on to say: I would love to think it was a straight offer but it wasn’t a straight offer, I’ve got to be honest. I got a call to say that people on Unforgotten were going to give the script to three actors and I was one of them.”
She admitted: “I thought ‘that is so lovely and kind but absolutely not’ because Nicola is so brilliant but my agent did what agents do and convinced me to read it.”
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