Bodyguard season 2: Richard Madden meeting with Jed Mercurio 'in a couple of weeks' to find out how the show can continue
'You know, David Budd, he walks about London with a bomb on. I mean, everyone definitely knows his face now'
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Your support makes all the difference.Richard Madden is “very keen” to hear about Bodyguard creator Jed Mercurio’s plans for a second season of the hit BBC show, and expects it to return.
When Deadline suggested in an interview that a conversation about a second season must be happening, Madden replied: “Yeah, I think it probably is.”
“I’m going to meet Jed in a couple of weeks, to have a chat and see what’s in his brilliant brain,” he continued.
“So I’m like, what can happen next? You know, with David. Because he had a hell of a couple months there. Where do you go with this guy?”
Though keen to return, the actor said he could see Bodyguard being a “one-and-done” show.
“Maybe we’re moving away from, ‘Oh, it’s good, let’s make nine series of it,’” he mused.
“You know, David Budd, he walks about London with a bomb on. I mean, everyone definitely knows his face now. He can’t really slip back into police work again. What’s his life like after that?”
It remains to be seen where Mercurio will take the show and whether Budd can return to protection work after his face was all over the news.
Madden had a pretty wild idea for how the show could continue, which would see it turn into an anthology series.
“I also thought, maybe it’s going to be like American Horror Story where, in the second series, it’s a whole different incarnation of it, and I’m a royal and Keeley is on my protection team. And you get all the rest of the actors back, and we all do different things,” he said. “But who knows what’s in Jed’s mind. I’m very keen to hear.”
Bodyguard season 1 was released on Netflix worldwide last week, after landing the BBC its most watched season finale since records began.
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