Caroline Catz interview
Published: Thursday, 21 June 2007, 12:13PM
Caroline Catz couldn’t wait to find out whether love blossoms between the grumpy doctor and the pretty primary school headmistress when she agreed to make the third series of Doc Martin.
“I wanted to make another series because I wanted to find out if Louisa and the doctor resolve their differences, “ says Caroline.
“At the end of the last series Louisa and the doctor were further away than ever.”
“There is still this flicker of intrigue about the doctor that won’t go away. In spite of herself Louisa keeps having this interest in him. She’s impressed by him, even though she is offended by the things he has said to her.
“Louisa keeps hoping things will change with the doctor, that is possibly where her heart is. But things keep happening between them to stop them getting together. Whenever it looks as if there will be a breakthrough there’s a misunderstanding or mis-communication which leads them into deeper, hotter water.
“So she has two men she is interested in, but she doesn’t trust either of them.”
The romantic fortunes of the doctor and Louisa weren’t the only reason for Caroline returning for a third series of Doc Martin. She has fallen in love with Cornwall.
“It was lovely to be in Cornwall for the summer. We filmed for four months, and I lived in a cottage in the heart of the village. When I wasn’t filming I went to the beach, and explored the area. I fell in love with the place. It would be lovely to have a little bolt hole there. Who knows, maybe?”
After the first series of Doc Martin, mother of two Caroline went back to the role of slick city suited cop, Detective Inspector Kate Ashurst in Murder In Suburbia.
Caroline’s other television credits include The Vice, In Denial of Murder, Real Men, The Bill, Preston Front, Look Me In The Eye and The Guilty.
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