Shetland star says 'hands stopped working' as she opens up on brutal filming conditions

Shetland prima Ashley Jensen, who plays DI Ruth Calder successful the deed BBC transgression drama, confessed that she and her co-stars struggled to header with the upwind conditions connected the distant island.

Shetland prima Ashley Jensen has shared the existent challenges of filming the fashionable series, arsenic she steps into the spotlight for its ninth season.

The 55-year-old histrion is acceptable to captivate viewers contiguous arsenic she returns to her relation arsenic DI Ruth Calder successful the BBC's acclaimed drama.

Having taken the pb from DI Jimmy Pere, Jensen present helms the amusement which has near fans connected tenterhooks for astir a year.

In anticipation of the caller episodes, Ashley joined Alex Jones and Vernon Kay connected Wednesday's The One Show, wherever she recounted however the harsh Shetland clime affected shooting. She said: "This twelvemonth we got the due Shetland upwind and we had snowfall successful April and 60-mile-an-hour upwind and it was precise very cold."

Ashley went connected to picture the utmost conditions they faced connected location, explaining: "Every clip we spell to Shetland it's each beauteous overmuch filmed extracurricular due to the fact that that's the portion we person to amusement arsenic they are authentic Shetland islands truthful we had to person vigor pads successful our pockets."

She besides recalled a peculiarly pugnacious time connected set, saying: "At 1 constituent we had to sprout a country wherever I had to get retired of a car and get a telephone and location keys retired of my pouch and my hands virtually stopped moving and it was genuine frustration. It was beauteous cold."

While speaking astir moving connected a distant island, the histrion disclosed however the unpredictable upwind pinned her down during filming, reports the Daily Record.

She said: "You can't get location unless you person 5 days wide of nary filming. You person to enactment connected the Island due to the fact that the upwind tin virtually crook astatine immoderate moment."

Ashley went connected to picture however swift changes successful upwind affected departures, explaining: "There could beryllium beauteous sun, past by the clip you get to the airport, determination is simply a happening called haar, which is simply a oversea mist that comes down and planes can't instrumentality disconnected oregon onshore truthful they support you there. But I deliberation that is rather bully due to the fact that it leads to everyone having a spot of camaraderie and everybody getting along."

Shetland airs from 9pm connected BBC One and iPlayer.