Marc Warren enlisted stunt double to run for him on Van Der Valk

Marc Warren had a stunt double running for him on ‘Van Der Valk’.

The ‘Band of Brothers’ star admitted there's an on-set joke on the ITV1 detective drama - which is currently airing its third and finale season - that he “doesn’t run”, but he insisted that's because he doesn't "run well on screen".

The 56-year-old actor told the Daily Star newspaper's Hot TV column: “"In terms of stunts, I have a great stuntman called Phil who doubles for me and I don't tend to do a lot of that stuff.

"They always joke that, ‘Marc doesn’t run.’ I do run. But you know what you’re good at, and you know what you’re not good at, and you know you’re not good at.

“I don’t run well on screen. I’m not a good runner. You don’t want to see me running."

Marc insisted when they were filming for the remake of the classic show - which originally ran from 1972 to 1992 - in Amsterdam, he “really did” his leg “in”.

He said: “I was staying in an apartment with three of the steepest flights of stars. And I do not know why, but it really did my calf in.

“I think it as using muscles that I wasn’t used to doing."

And the ‘An Ungentlemanly Act’ star admitted footage of him running from working on BBC One's 2009 series was “not pretty”.

Marc added: “I remember running once in ‘Hustle’ with Adrian Lester, who can run. And I watched the playback, and I was just legs everywhere. It’s not pretty.”

The former ‘Mad Dogs’ star recently insisted the last series of the show is the best yet as they’ve shed all “the things that don’t work”.

He told the Radio Times magazine: "I think anybody who enjoyed the first two seasons will enjoy this one because I think it does get stronger. It's a show that's learning, and we take what's good, and we get rid of the things that don't work, and hopefully, we've made it more entertaining."