Warren Brown on his X Company co-stars: 'It was a bond I’d never known before'

Warren Brown has said shooting his first ever period piece felt similar to being sent to war.

Brown, 39, stars in spy series X Company as Neil Mackay – an ex policeman who is recruited to work for top-secret training camp, Camp X during World War II.

He said he made lifelong friends after being thrust together with Evelyne Brochu, Jack Laskey, Dustin Milligan, and Connor Price to shoot on location in places from Hungary to Canada.

He told Standard Online: “[X Company] is about a group of five spies sent behind enemy lines and five of us from the beginning had never had a job like it where we all got on and we were from England, America and Canada.

“I don’t want to compare it to war, but you’re taken from your home and thrust together as a team and we really got on. Over three years we created really good friendships and good bonds.

“We worked together but we were friends. It was a bond I’d never known before.”

Brown said despite the “dark subject matter” they were still able to have fun on and off set on what he said was the “biggest” acting gig he had taken on at the time.

Brown, who has starred in British TV favourites Luther and ITV’s gripping, Liar, said he had to get used to the difference in pace on a big budget production across the pond.

“I wanted the chance to do period and shoot out in Budapest on such an international thing because at that point it was certainly the biggest thing I’d done.

“The pace is a lot quicker, you have less time to do so much. We’d have 25 days in UK to do two episodes of Luther, and with this you have 14 days to do two episodes.”

The series is loosely based on the real life Camp X which was run by the Allies to train British, American and Canadian spies during WWII near Lake Ontario. It also stars Hugh Dillon and Livia Matthes.

X Company is exclusive to History channel, Tuesdays, 9pm.