Jade Eshete

TV Series Dirk Gently

The first episode is a lot of nothing for you; you’re just kind of in a bed. Was that tough to play?

I remember reading that at first and thinking, “What is it that they want me to do? Farah is chained to this bed the whole time.” Then I saw what Max had written for other episodes, and that just made me fall in love with the role even more. In terms of being chained to the bed … yeah, there were moments that were pretty tough. Those were real handcuffs. It was kind of exhausting. They wanted to capture that sense of frustration: I’m sweaty, I’m bloody, I’m screaming at the top of my lungs for someone to find me. There were aspects of it that were tough, but all in all, it was awesome. We called it the red room because there was blood everywhere. It was really, really intense.