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Top Boy star details Drake’s involvement in the revived season 3

Photo credit: Channel 4
Photo credit: Channel 4

From Digital Spy

Top Boy star Ashley Walters has detailed Drake's involvement in saving the show.

The crime drama was cancelled after its second season aired on Channel 4 in 2013 but has recently dropped its third season on Netflix, after rapper Drake helped revive the show.

And, appearing on Sunday Brunch on Sunday (September 15), Ashley explained just how the Grammy Award winner came to be involved in bringing back the series.

Photo credit: Harmony Gerber/Getty Images
Photo credit: Harmony Gerber/Getty Images

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"It was put on Netflix after it was cancelled, a couple of years later, and we started to get a lot of interest Stateside," Ashley said.

"And then Drake watched it, which was weird, and we woke up one day, saw all this press over it [as] he’d posted.

"He had a picture of me and said, 'When’s the show coming back?' and I said it’s been cancelled and he said, 'Well, we’ll see about that'.

Photo credit: Channel 4
Photo credit: Channel 4

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He added: "Cut to about a year and a half later and he came back to the table with a deal and that was it, we went from there.

"He came back for the read through and he was in and out of London while we were shooting. But his whole thing was he was a fan of the show first and foremost, and he just wanted us to do what we did originally. He didn’t want to have too much creative control."

Top Boy season 3 is available to stream on Netflix.


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