I like to look cool on telly but I'm not Tom Cruise

Line of Duty star Vicky McClure takes a break from the action to raise dementia awareness.

- HANNAH STEPHENSON

SHE'S recently been seen running around London filming the second series of Trigger Point - but on a brief trip home to Nottingham, Vicky McClure is finding time to catch her breath.

"I'm running all day every day after bombs, running away from bombs, I feel like I train every day," the TV actress says wryly of her role as bomb disposal expert Lana Washington.

The genial TV star famed for her role as DI Kate Fleming from Line of Duty laughs at the obvious question: will the hit anti-corruption police drama be coming back for a seventh series? "I don't know," she says, smiling.

"I spend a lot of time with Jed (Mercurio, the show's writer) because we are making Trigger Point at the minute and Jed is the exec (executive producer) on that. We are so thick into that, we're not thinking about anything else. We've all said we'd love to, it's just nothing's on the agenda." Away from action dramas, Vicky, 40, has worked tirelessly to raise awareness about dementia. In 2019 she presented a BBC documentary called Our Dementia Choir, in which she set up a choir in Nottingham, exploring the impact of music therapy on sufferers. A follow-up was broadcast last year and the choir is still going strong.

She's still involved with the choir, many of whom have become close friends. "When I'm with the choir, I'm not thinking about my phone, I let go of my own worries, I get a bit of perspective." Vicky, an ambassador for the Alzheimer's Society, whose late grandmother had dementia, includes the theme in her debut children's novel, Castle Rock Mystery Crew.

It's a story about Jase, a 10-yearold boy on holiday at a Skegness caravan park with his aunt and grandmother, who suffers from dementia.