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The former EastEnders star on dodging bullets with British troops on the front line in Afg
The former EastEnders star on dodging bullets with British troops on the front line in Afghanistan for his new Sky One series.
Whether you think of him as EastEnders hard man Grant Mitchell or as a Bafta award-winning infiltrator of real-life gangs for Sky One, few would associate Ross Kemp with subtlety. Yet when he's speaking of his recent trip to Afghanistan with the British Army, he's surprisingly understated: it was, he says, 'an unhealthy environment in many ways'.
That doesn't quite cover what Kemp went through during the year he spent making Ross Kemp in Afghanistan, which starts on Sky One on Monday. He trained with the First Battalion the Royal Anglians, met soldiers and their families while still in England, and -- with Ministry of Defence approval -- was sent with them to Camp Bastion in Afghanistan's Helmand province.
'I've got many friends who are in the services,' he says, 'but you never really hear a squaddie giving his point of view. I'd never heard one talk publicly and I wanted to hear that voice.'
Kemp secured access to Afghanistan through his father's connections to his old regiment, and through a brigadier who happened to have gone to school with one of the programme's makers. 'I knew how dangerous it was,' says Kemp, 'but the CO said we could film training -- and that if I was good enough, I could go out on deployment.'
On camera, that training appears at times to be almost totally unlike Afghanistan. In England's subzero temperatures, a village that was built to be like somewhere typical of Eastern Europe scarcely resembled Helmand and its 50-degrees Celsius temperatures. But it did prepare Kemp and the troops for the tactics they were to use. 'And anyway,' says Kemp, 'I don't think you can prepare for lying flat-faced in the field while someone tries to kill you; I don't think you can prepare for the consistent jeopardy of not knowing if the next bump is going to be your last bump.'
Watching the series, over its five episodes, it is clear that Kemp is often in very real danger -- even the MoD were surprised when they reviewed the film -- but what comes through most powerfully is the resourcefulness and humanity of the soldiers who are fighting.
'It's amazing how your basic instincts come to the fore,' says Kemp. 'Even though you're carrying body armour, your helmet, nine litres of water and more, you can run very quickly when someone's trying to kill you. It's very motivational.'
Conditions away from the battlefield are often shocking, too, says Kemp. Rations were built for war in a cold climate, so chocolate bars melted to sauce; a pair of trousers became rags within a week because of the constant getting wet with sweat and then drying out in the heat. 'We've been seduced into thinking that we're fighting an electronic war,' says Kemp, 'but we're not, it's won on the ground by fighting men. And there is a shortage of helicopters, which I think is despicable. It's just money, and they are the most important thing that's needed out there.'
For many reasons, helicopters included, not everyone survives the fight -- Kemp's film includes some of those who don't make it, and talks to their families. 'I'm more proud of this than anything that I've ever been involved in,' says Kemp. 'But to look into the eyes of a mother who has just lost her 18-year-old son and ask her how she feels is probably the hardest thing I've had to do.'
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The former EastEnders star on dodging bullets with British troops on the front line in Afg
The former EastEnders star on dodging bullets with British troops on the front line in Afghanistan for his new Sky One series.
Whether you think of him as EastEnders hard man Grant Mitchell or as a Bafta award-winning infiltrator of real-life gangs for Sky One, few would associate Ross Kemp with subtlety. Yet when he's speaking of his recent trip to Afghanistan with the British Army, he's surprisingly understated: it was, he says, 'an unhealthy environment in many ways'.
That doesn't quite cover what Kemp went through during the year he spent making Ross Kemp in Afghanistan, which starts on Sky One on Monday. He trained with the First Battalion the Royal Anglians, met soldiers and their families while still in England, and -- with Ministry of Defence approval -- was sent with them to Camp Bastion in Afghanistan's Helmand province.
'I've got many friends who are in the services,' he says, 'but you never really hear a squaddie giving his point of view. I'd never heard one talk publicly and I wanted to hear that voice.'
Kemp secured access to Afghanistan through his father's connections to his old regiment, and through a brigadier who happened to have gone to school with one of the programme's makers. 'I knew how dangerous it was,' says Kemp, 'but the CO said we could film training -- and that if I was good enough, I could go out on deployment.'
On camera, that training appears at times to be almost totally unlike Afghanistan. In England's subzero temperatures, a village that was built to be like somewhere typical of Eastern Europe scarcely resembled Helmand and its 50-degrees Celsius temperatures. But it did prepare Kemp and the troops for the tactics they were to use. 'And anyway,' says Kemp, 'I don't think you can prepare for lying flat-faced in the field while someone tries to kill you; I don't think you can prepare for the consistent jeopardy of not knowing if the next bump is going to be your last bump.'
Watching the series, over its five episodes, it is clear that Kemp is often in very real danger -- even the MoD were surprised when they reviewed the film -- but what comes through most powerfully is the resourcefulness and humanity of the soldiers who are fighting.
'It's amazing how your basic instincts come to the fore,' says Kemp. 'Even though you're carrying body armour, your helmet, nine litres of water and more, you can run very quickly when someone's trying to kill you. It's very motivational.'
Conditions away from the battlefield are often shocking, too, says Kemp. Rations were built for war in a cold climate, so chocolate bars melted to sauce; a pair of trousers became rags within a week because of the constant getting wet with sweat and then drying out in the heat. 'We've been seduced into thinking that we're fighting an electronic war,' says Kemp, 'but we're not, it's won on the ground by fighting men. And there is a shortage of helicopters, which I think is despicable. It's just money, and they are the most important thing that's needed out there.'
For many reasons, helicopters included, not everyone survives the fight -- Kemp's film includes some of those who don't make it, and talks to their families. 'I'm more proud of this than anything that I've ever been involved in,' says Kemp. 'But to look into the eyes of a mother who has just lost her 18-year-old son and ask her how she feels is probably the hardest thing I've had to do.'
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Tempo is a little fast, but you get the idea.
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