For now, Holly has given two small interviews on the return of The Strike on BBC ONE. And seems like she is a bit conflicted if she’s pro or against a Cormoran & Robin (loveydovey) relationship! What’s your opinion? Let us know via Twitter here.

Holliday Grainger isn’t as on board with the idea of Strike and Robin getting together as fans of the hit BBC One series are. Robin Ellacott, played by Holliday, and her boss Cormoran Strike (Tom Burke) have had a simmering tension between them for the last three seasons of the Strike crime drama, based on JK Rowling’s novels penned under her pseudonym Robert Galbraith. In the new story Strike: Lethal White – which will air later this month – those feelings haven’t gone away despite Robin’s marriage to Matthew (Kerr Logan). While this may be good news for Robin/Strike shippers who love a bit of angst, the actress thinks it would be better if they didn’t act on their feelings.
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We finally have a date for Lethal White release!! The 4th book finally hits our TV with the first two episodes airing on August 30th and 31. The following 2 episodes will air on the following weekend September 6th and 7th, for a total of 4 episodes.

Tom Burke (and Holliday Grainger!!) will return as the private detective Cormoran Strike in a new BBC One four-part thriller.

Private investigator Cormoran Strike is returning to television sooner than you might think, as the BBC recently revealed a premiere date for the next series.

Based on the bestselling novels by JK Rowling, published under her alternate pseudonym Robert Galbraith, the series stars Tom Burke in the title role.

Opposite him, Holliday Grainger plays professional partner Robin Ellacott, who joins him on complex criminal cases that the police have been unable to crack. We’ll also learn more about Robin and Cormoran’s will-they-won’t-they relationship, which Burke has described as the “heart of the show”.

The fourth series, subtitled Lethal White, will continue on from past outings The Cuckoo’s Calling, The Silkworm and Career of Evil, when it premieres later this month.

Here’s everything you need to know about Strike: Lethal White.
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As announced via our Twitter, Holliday and the cast/ crew of The Capture participated on Comic Con at Home 2020 and had a very nice chat for a little more than 30 minutes via Youtube!

We have transcript the full Holly’s part interview for her fans to read but you can also see it on the official Youtube channel. This interview was promoted by the streaming channel Peacock which brings The Capture exclusively to the US.

Philiana Ng: Holliday Grainger who plays Detective Rachel Carey
Holliday Grainger: ‘Hi, guys!’
HG: Tries to speak: ‘I’ve seen a lot of…’
HG: ‘Yeah, I like the one in Gelson’s actually. Yeah but just seen a lot of Callum over the computer’
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HG: ‘It’s so good to see it again, it’s been so long it’s made me feel really excited.’
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To celebrate the release of The Capture (season 1) on NBC Peacock, Holly made a few Zoom interviews!! We not only have added screencaps on our gallery but here are the videos available on youtube to watch. Soon we will add them to our Video Archive as well. We actually have a small sneak peak into Holly’s living room!

 

Be sure to get tomorrow’s Grazia UK for a small clipping of Holliday promoting the Belstaff podcast.

The star of hit BBC thriller The Capture suggested she has found life “gets harder” as she grows older.

Grainger, 32, who also starred alongside Oscar-winner Alicia Vikander in the film adaptation of the novel Tulip Fever, told The Road Less Travelled podcast by fashion brand Belstaff: “I never suffered from any kind of anxiety but then I feel like this is, the more I talk to people my age, the more like, oh god, you know, things just get harder, don’t they?”

The actor, who also starred in Strike – the 2017 drama series based on the crime novels by Harry Potter author JK Rowling – said there was growing variety in the acting world, in particular for female actors, and she was now being offered far more “nuanced and complicated” scripts.

“I do get that from the scripts that I’m reading now, you’re reading so many more nuanced and complicated stories that are way more diverse than they were so it feels quite exciting,” she said “[It is] an exciting time in the industry. I think there is a massive shift at the moment in that we’re telling experiences.

“A lot of the scripts that I’m reading at the moment even if it’s a period drama, it doesn’t really matter what the time period is, it’s the vulnerabilities and the questions and the life choices that you have to make, they’re all still the same, a woman was a woman a hundred years ago.”

Grainger, who appeared in the BAFTA-winning children’s series Roger and the Rottentrolls as a child actor was born in Manchester. She also starred in Doctors, Casualty plus Dalziel and Pascoe in her youth. Her break came in 2011 when she played Estella in the Mike Newell film adaptation of Great Expectations with Jeremy Irvine and Helena Bonham Carter.

The star also spoke about diversity in showbusiness – and how stories were increasingly being told from alternative perspectives in both film and television.

The actor said: “Well, it’s exciting and necessary because I mean stories are only interesting because they’re diverse and when stories have been told from one perspective for too long, it’s like you want the rest of the perspectives.

“I think people, as a society, or as a race of humans, that we respond to people that are like ourselves. So if too many people in the room are the same, they’re only going respond to people like them.”

She added: “So you need to make sure that the room is full of the representative of the wider space because that’s the only way that it can, will stay diverse and interesting and exciting for everyone.”

New episodes of The Road Less Travelled podcast are available via Apple Podcasts and Spotify every Monday. Video content and more information will be available on Belstaff.com.