Out There was filmed entirely in Wales, across different locations from Carmarthernshire to Newport
Out There was filmed entirely in Wales, across different locations from Carmarthernshire to Newport
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New ITV1 drama starring Martin Clunes sees the Doc Martin star face off against drug dealers – but where was the series filmed?
Out There follows farmer Nathan William’s battle against county drug lines and dark forces creeping into his rural Welsh community.
Compounding his troubles, Nathan’s teenage son Johnny (Louis Ashbourne Serkis) rekindles a friendship with an old mate turned drug dealer Rhys (Gerran Howell), who draws him into the murky world of drug trafficking.
Nathan is thrust into a battle to protect his farm and his community from the threat posed by County Lines drug operations. Out There aired its first episode at 9pm on Sunday, January 19 on ITV1, with the entire series available on ITVX.
Set and filmed in Wales, many locations in Wales were used for filming. Wales Online reports farms located in Llangattock, near Crickhowell in Bannau Brycheiniog and in Llyswen, near Brecon, were used for filming.
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The small town location was made up of various areas but mainly featured Llandovery in Carmarthenshire. The large town and city location was Newport, Trefil near Merthyr Tydfil, Port Talbot, Swansea, Cardiff and Bettws near Bridgend.
Interior scenes were shot at Dragon Studios in Cardiff. Martin spoke about filming in Wales, he said: “I really enjoyed filming in Wales. The locations were beautiful. I like being on a farm and being in the countryside. I was in my element.”
Martin also spoke about county lines crime, which the drama explores when Martin’s character’s son gets caught up in the messy and dangerous world of dealing drugs, and explained why the drama was set and filmed in Wales. He said: “Marc Evans, the director, had this thought that where it is in Wales is kind of borderland, and so much of it is about boundaries, and borders, and encroachment, and threat, and it is all sort of tied in together. But county lines is very much a nationwide problem. The way we are telling it, those issues come up.”
Carly-Sophia who plays Sadie Simpson in the drama, is from Port Talbot and she spoke about what it was like to be filming in her home. She said: “It was great to see Port Talbot in a different way and to see different parts of it, and parts of my own country that I hadn’t seen, and have a new relationship with the place I grew up in.
“The house which Sadie and Rhys live in is very close to where I grew up, literally round the corner from my old school. The chip shop in the chip shop scene is the one I used to go to on my lunch break from school. The pub we filmed in was where I had my prom. You have memories in all these places. It was a really special experience.”