Sean Bean is back on screen playing another bad guy – because he says he’s drawn to villainous parts. 
The Sharpe actor plays a corrupt businessman in new Channel 4 film trilogy Red Riding – a character who Sean says is bad but three-dimensional. 

“I find playing the bad guys very interesting. But it depends how it’s written – I’ve played bad guys in the past who are one-dimensional but in this case he’s a very complex, troubled soul and that’s what I find exciting,” he said. 

Sean added that he didn’t identify with the character but he did sympathise with him. 

“He has humour and charm but is a very troubled man underneath with a lot of guilt and anxiety,” he said. 

“It’s difficult to sympathise with him, but you’ve got to like him in order to play him otherwise he’d just be a monster. He is a monster but I’ve got to like that monster.” 

Red Riding starts on Channel 4 on March 5.