“It allows me to bring up a lot of issues, almost unsaid, and of course having a Black actor in that role allowed the character to speak with some anger and pain to the issues which are bedeviling every police force at the moment.”
“It is immediately a much more interesting story to me and a much more interesting journey for the actor to take,” Harbinson says. In the book, she’s white, but in The Tower she’s played by a Black actress because the writer wanted to reflect the diversity of present-day London and its police force. One change Harbinson made from the source material: Lizzie’s race. “I was interested in telling a plausible, compelling, moving story.” “I wasn’t interested in sending messages,” he says.
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“It starts with this tragedy, but the steps to that tragedy are so small and relatable and ordinary.”Īlthough cops come under Sarah’s scrutiny, Harbinson doesn’t see the series as a critique of policing. “What struck me was the authenticity,” he says. The tense three-part procedural, filmed in Liverpool, was adapted by executive producer Patrick Harbinson ( Homeland) after he devoured former police detective Kate London’s novel Post Mortem. Why did a Muslim teenage girl and a white police constable plummet to their deaths from the roof of a London tower block? Before Detective Sergeant Sarah Collins ( Gemma Whelan) and her colleague, Detective Constable Steve Bradshaw ( Jimmy Akingbola), can find answers in the BritBox drama The Tower, she must track down her key witness: the deceased officer’s partner, Lizzie Adama ( Tahirah Sharif), who’s gone AWOL.
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