Bodyguard star Richard Madden reckons his character David Budd should be given a bit of a break before a second season.
The BBC show broke huge records when it debuted last year, though surprisingly a second run has yet to be officially confirmed.
However, Madden has admitted he's spoken to creator Jed Mercurio about doing more, and agreed with him that we should revisit Budd a bit further down the line in a potential new season.
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"We've been talking about it and I spoke to Jed about a month after the show had finished airing over in the UK and we sat and decided, 'Let's give it at least a year while we work out how to do something better'," he said (via PA).
"You cannot jump into it. David Budd definitely needs a vacation after that. He's not going to go back to work, is he?
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"And also he's the most famous man in London because of what happens at the end of episode six. He couldn't just go straight back into work.
"Me and Jed both agree that there's something much more interesting in 'let's catch up with him 18 months later, two years later after this has happened and say where is he now? What's happened to him?'"
Madden also said that he would be excited to get back into the role, continuing: "I'd love to get back into his head. If he didn't have enough going on in his head already, after all this experience, throwing that on top of everything, where does that put this man in terms of his morals?
"I think there's a really exciting story in there and I'd be keen to see what Jed comes up with."
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