Detectives of Five Points (COPPER Making Of)

Go behind the badge of BBC America’s COPPER – and get up-close with the tough but committed Detectives of Five Points at the center of this compelling all new original series.

“If Corcoran, Maguire and O’Brien were around today doing what they do, they’d be out of jobs quicker than anybody!” So proclaims Tom Weston-Jones (MI-5), star of COPPER. Agrees Series Co-Creator & Executive Producer, Emmy® Award Winner Tom Fontana (Homicide: Life on the Streets, Oz) says, “The police were a gang as much as any gang that existed in New York.”

Meet Kevin Corcoran (Weston-Jones), an intense, rugged Irish-immigrant cop working the city’s notorious Five Points neighborhood. Says Kevin Ryan (Detective Francis Maguire), “Kevin Corcoran is just like the Super Cop.” And Dylan Taylor (Detective Andrew O’Brien) concurs, ” In 1864, the Five Points New York, you don’t want to be on the end of [Corcoran]’s overhand-right!”

PLUS: Discovery what attracted Weston-Jones to playing Corcoran – and what makes it so fun to play the tortured anti-hero: “He just oversteps the mark so many times and pushes too hard for the things he wants… That’s what I love about his detective work.”

Want more Copper? Check out the Ultimate Series Playlist only on BBC America’s YouTube channel for more: http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLDEC0A2F8D12F8F57&feature=plcp

COPPER is a gripping cop drama set in 1860s New York City, and centers on Kevin Corcoran,. Corcoran is struggling to maintain his moral compass in a turbulent world while on an emotional and relentless quest to learn the truth about the disappearance of his wife and the death of his daughter.

COPPER stars Tom Weston-Jones (MI-5) and Franka Potente (The Bourne Supremacy, Run Lola Run). The series is created by Fontana and Academy Award®-nominee Will Rokos (Monster’s Ball, Southland)

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