Bodyguard actor Richard Madden confirms talks for season 2 are happening

Following the astronomical success of Bodyguard, talks of a sequel were inevitable.

Richard Madden – who played the eponymous bodyguard in the series – has since confirmed that talks with showrunner Jed Mercurio about a follow-up are taking place.

“I’m having a conversation with him (Mercurio) in about 10 days or something, when I’m back in the country, and we are just going to chat through some ideas,” he said.

“We never intended to make another one and I don’t know, I’m excited to see what he’s got, especially because David (Budd, his character) had quite a busy couple of months.

“So what do we do with him next? Because he probably needs a break... but him, on the beach with a pina colada, I don’t think people are going to watch that as much. Less anxiety though, I would like less anxiety.”

Madden also commented on the show’s rolling success, thanks to the series’ release on Netflix in America, calling it “strange”. The actor added that the weekly release in the UK was nerve wracking.

He said (spoilers ahead): ”Every week I was terrified of people hating the next episode and something that comes with something being successful is you get very prepared for people to turn around in episode four and say ‘I hate it, Keeley Hawes is dead and I don’t want to watch it any more and it’s rubbish’ and that’s even worse because people enjoyed something and then hated it.

“And then every week more people watched it and more people liked it and then it finished and you go: ‘Oh god, we have run out of opportunities for it to crash and burn now’ and then it goes on Netflix and you go, ‘It’s going to crash and burn’ and then you have to go through it all again.

“Then we have got to the end of that and it’s not crashed and burned and it’s kind of overwhelming. It’s just thrilling that a little show that didn’t have a huge budget and just had a bunch of actors working really hard, it’s really inspiring that that has done well and not for any kind of glory, we just thought we were making a show we want to.”