'Spooks' star 'worried about show exit'

Published Monday, Aug 23 2010, 10:01 BST | By Catriona Wightman

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Hermione Norris has admitted that she worried about leaving Spooks.

Norris's character Ros was killed off at the end of the last series but the actress has now explained that she didn't know whether she would land any more television roles.

"It wasn't easy because Ros may well be the most favourite character I've ever played," she told The Daily Telegraph. "And being so physical on that show was just great fun.

"But you have to take a leap of faith, and I knew I had to stop her before she stopped me."

However, Norris revealed that she enjoyed her new role in ITV's remake of Bouquet Of Barbed Wire.

"By the end, everyone has slept with somebody else and yet it doesn't seem salacious or gratuitous, just rather heartbreaking," she said. "It's a drama about people and humanity and how those who are hurt go on to hurt others. You watch a family imploding and disintegrating and everything just breaking apart."

Bouquet Of Barbed Wire will air on ITV1 next month.