Tamer Hassan made his name playing East End villains, but his latest project took him to East Europe.
The London-born actor plays Russian officer Sergei in Bitter Harvest, a story set during the The Holodomor genocide in Ukraine in the 1930s.
He spoke to London Live's Luke Blackall about inhabiting such a dark character, talking tantra with Terence Stamp and how he coped after a horse broke his foot on set.