'Doc Martin' star Martin Clunes reveals that some characters in the Acorn TV series were named after

(23 Dec 2022)
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10. SOUNDBITE (English) Martin Clunes, actor - on naming characters in the TV show after his dogs:
"Named after that dog. Mary Elizabeth Clunes. She was our first spaniel before we had a daughter, actually. In fact, our daughter used to get quite jealous of the spaniel! But yeah, so yeah, Mary Elizabeth is her, and the boy James is my Jack Russell (terrier), Jim. James Henry."
(Reporter: "It's amazing.")
"Makes us laugh. There's, you may have noticed there's a - one of our dogs is called Bob Jackson, and there's a plumber in series ten called Bob Jackson. And there's also in episode eight, Rupert Graves plays Arthur Collins, and Arthur Collin was our Black Labrador - no longer with us. But they're all in there. Stupid, isn't it?"


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