Time to Meet Another Character from Ripper Street: Sergeant Drake (Dread Central)

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"Game of Thrones" fans love him as Bronn, but Jerome Flynn has another role he wants you to know about. He portrays Sergeant Bennet Drake on BBC America's "Ripper Street," whom he describes as "a refined musclehead." Learn more about him in this new promo video for the show.

Drake, Inspector Reid's right-hand, is a hard man with some harder demons. Ex-army, his fists often deliver the blow needed to get a suspect talking. But Drake is fiercely loyal to Reid, the Inspector who saw the potential in him - beyond a supreme ability to crack heads.

The series kicks off on Saturday, January 19th.


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Fake bodies on Ripper St left me scared stiff - Says Jerome Flynn (THE SUN)

ACTOR Jerome Flynn has suffered recurring nightmares since playing a cop on the mean streets of 19th Century London’s East End.

The Game Of Thrones star — who plays thuggish Sergeant Bennet Drake in Ripper Street — admitted some of the props, including fake corpses and a HORSE’s head, were so gruesome he could not sleep.

He said: “There was lots of fake blood and gross prosthetics. There were lots of dead bodies lying around, it was quite a gruesome affair.

“But for me one of the most challenging things was a horse’s head.

“While it was haunting seeing a human’s head, there was a scene in which we have to examine a horse who has been shot.

“It was very realistic and, as I’m a vegetarian, I found it really difficult to look at.

“It did get to me a bit — I have had quite a few disturbed dreams.”


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