Wednesday, 5 September 2018

Articles Where Are They Now Cast? Kiss Kiss Bang Bang by DJ Forrest



After hurtling around the streets after a drugged-up Blowfish in a sports car, the creature is dealt with in a suburban house, while holding a teenager against her will. Captain Jack makes a surprise visit, shooting the blowfish in the head, startling Ianto. Back at the Hub the team are dismayed that their leader had left them in the lurch for months, but deep down they’re pleased that he's returned after finding his Doctor.

Alerted to a multi storey car park where the body of a mugger lies smashed on the ground, the team detect Rift energy around the corpse. Jack receives a hologram message from an old friend and promptly leaves the team again. Finding his old partner, Captain John Hart in a nightclub he's just emptied, passionate kiss and fisticuffs soon settles the pair into a conversation about the past, and the Time Agency.

When the rest of the team arrive, John requests help finding cluster bombs which are radioactive and could cause major problems in the city if they're not retrieved. With the team out locating them all, John takes them all out systematically, injuring them and poisoning Gwen to the point of paralysis.

Returning to the Hub with all parts of the 'cluster bomb' which turns out to be a locator for where the prize of a diamond lies, Hart is disappointed to learn that it is in fact a bomb, set to locate the person who killed the woman in the hologram. It attaches to John and is set to detonate within 10 minutes. Grabbing Gwen, he handcuffs himself to her, swallowing the key. Gwen issues instructions to use the Rift to contain the explosion, risking her own life to save millions. Knowing that time is ticking, Gwen leaves with John.

Kiss Kiss Bang Bang was broadcast on 16th January 2008. It was written by Chris Chibnall, currently the showrunner for Doctor Who, and directed by Ashley Way.


James Marsters


'Captain John Hart'

‘I can't believe I got the answer machine. What can you be doing that's more important than me? Anyway, you've probably traced the energy shift, found the body. All me. Sorry about the mess. Bill me for the clean up. Now. Drinks. Retrolock the transmission coordinates, that's where I am. And hurry up. Work to do. Help me, Obi-Wan Kenobi. You're my only hope.’

When Hart arrived on the planet, he had plans of reaping his rewards, but instead got his just desserts and was sent packing by the end of the episode, however, he left Jack Harkness with something to think about, when Hart revealed information about his long-lost brother, Gray.

Since Torchwood, Marsters has been busy, from voice overs in video games to sci fi series television shows and now his Vidiots series returns with Man Against Wind. As well as acting, Marsters has also been a Second Unit Director or Assistant Director for a 2016 Short called Kessi Blue which also stars his wife, (since 2011), Jasmin (Rahman) Marsters, who also appears in his Vidiots series. Marsters is globally remembered as Spike from the Buffy series, and although Hart is a popular character for all Torchwood fans, it's the sexy ass vampire that people always remember first.


But it's not just acting and directing that Marsters is a dab hand at. He's also the lead singer of Ghost of the Robot, playing guitar in the Californian rock band, formed in 2002 - 2004, then returned in 2010 till present. The music is classed as Rock, Alternative Rock and Country. His son Sullivan Marsters also plays with the band on vocals and guitar. The band recorded two albums - Mad Brilliant in 2003 and B-Sider (2004) before taking a break a year later. They reunited in 2010 at the Santa Monica club where they had played their first show and released their studio album Murphy's Law in 2012, followed by their European Tour. The band are still putting out songs and working on their 5th album Pair of Bulls Part 1.



Menna Trussler


'Old Woman'

'Bloody Torchwood!'


Walking along the street towards the traffic lights, the old woman is startled by a strange creature driving a sports car. It screams to a halt as the lights change and waves her across the road before zooming off into the distance when the lights signify GO. After Torchwood in hot pursuit enquire if she's seen a Blowfish driving a Sportscar, she points in the direction it left, muttering 'Bloody Torchwood' after the SUV heads off in pursuit.


Since Torchwood, Menna has appeared in many popular television series such as Jam & Jerusalem, Come Fly with Me, Stella and quite recently Keeping Faith as the nosey neighbour Eira Jones. In 2014, Menna played Gwen in the film Pride, which told the story of the Miners Strike in 1983 and how a bunch of LGBT raised money for a small Welsh mining village and how people reacted to their fund raising. It was a really great film, full of familiar faces from the world of Sherlock and Torchwood. Menna plays Enid Wist in Chariot, currently in post-production.



Crispin Layfield

'Mugger'

'Come any closer and I'll open up his neck.'

Threatening to slit the throat of man in the NCP rooftop parking bay, the mugger was unaware how quickly the tables would turn and put him over the precipice of the building, plummeting to his death.


Stuntman Crispin Layfield who has also worked as an actor since 1998, has worked as a stunt performer, stunt coordinator and stunt double for many television shows and films over the years, including Dangerfield, Spice World, Doomwatch, Grafters, Murder in Mind, London's Burning, Emmerdale, Hotel Babylon, Benidorm, Being Human, Poirot, Inspector George Gently, Mr Selfridge, Eastenders, Corrie, Doctor Who (for 62 episodes). Quite recently for Luther and a series currently in post production - Informer.



Nathan Ryan

'Victim'

'Get off! I didn't do it. Please, leave me alone.'

Just before John Hart arrives on the scene, the young man has fallen foul of a mugger intent on harming him and begs for mercy. When John Hart saves the day, as much as the death of the mugger shocks him, he's unsure of Hart's intentions now he's witnessed the murder.

There are a fair few Nathan Ryan's on the internet, most of which are from Colorado or Canada, and finding more about our Nathan has drawn several blanks.

Nathan's first series was as Thorn for 21 episodes of The Mysti Show in 2004, and in 2009 played Mark Ward in the Casualty episode Great Expectations.




Inika Leigh Wright


'Hologram Woman'

'You've travelled several galaxies for this. Well done. Except, there's no diamond. Only this. It's an explosive device which will latch on to the DNA of whoever killed me. It'll detonate in ten minutes. It can't be removed without exploding so, don't bother trying. Goodbye, lover. See you in hell.'


When Captain John Hart pieced all the bits together to form the locator, he was surprised to discover that instead of the location of the diamond he had been searching for, a bomb lay in store for him, latching onto the DNA of the murderer of the woman in the hologram.


Inika grew up in the Port of Spain, Trinidad and trained at the Central School of Speech in Drama, graduating in 2000. (BBA Shakespeare). Her first television drama was as Tanarive in Urban Gothic episode Deptford Voodoo in 2000. Since then, she's been in Casualty as Lisa for 3 episodes, Pompeii: The Last Day as Hedone in 2003, Dead Eyes as Kat Blake in 2007, and in 2008, the last entry (anywhere), as Charlotte Nye in The Last Enemy for three episodes in 2008.

Since then, there is no mention of further roles in television or theatre.



Seren Whyte


‘Teenage girl’


The teenage girl is a frightened victim of a drug crazed Blowfish on the run from the Torchwood team, now cornered in a suburban home, where Dad is lying bleeding on the living room carpet and Mum is protected by Gwen, all guns on the Blowfish, who holds a gun to the head of the young girl hostage. Until Captain Jack enters through the French Windows and saves the day!

Seren's first role was as the teenage girl in Torchwood, since then she's played the Magician's Assistant in The Magician's series in 2011, moving on to playing Catherine's Daughter in New Tricks episode The Girl Who Lived in 2012 and lending her voice to a character in film short Absent Mind in the same year.


Seren is currently onboard a ship playing a character in a summer pantomime of Aladdin.

Seren also has a YouTube channel with her sister Elise, https://gaming.youtube.com/channel/UCadGmvxPkx5djbstD0w3v6w plus you can also follow her here: http://www.whytesistersrally.com/ on their website. The Whyte Sisters are the youngest all female, historic endurance rallying crew.



Robert Stone


‘Bouncer in Night Club’

'All right, mate, let's take it outside.'

When John Hart entered Bar Reunion and picked who should stay and who should go, the uniformed Bouncer and his two associates decided that John should be the one to leave, until of course, he produced two large hand guns - then everyone left!!!

Robert doesn't let the grass grow under his feet for long. Long before Torchwood he was playing men in uniform and Bouncers and Henchmen, and a Skinhead villain. He does very much suit that role. Robert has played two characters in Torchwood, although the Goth Man in Everything Changes is difficult to locate and may require several freeze frame checks of bar fights and background crowds to detect him - or it could be that his role found its way onto the cutting room floor.


Since Torchwood though, Stone has played characters in Emmerdale, Pobyl -y - Cwm, Waking the Dead, CBBC The Slammer, RocknRolla, High Hopes, Shameless, Sherlock Holmes, A Touch of Frost, Burke and Hare, The Rise & Fall of a White Collar Hooligan, Molly Moon and the Incredible Book of Hypnotism, Casualty, Snatch series, and is playing  Cavendish Security for Nativity Rocks! currently in post-production.

You can read our interview with Robert from a few years back on our Interviews Page!


Seren Whyte photo courtesy Seren Whyte
Credit Alishia love for Seren Whyte headshot
Strongman photo courtesy Robert Stone




















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