‘The Responder’ star Martin Freeman gets scruffy in new role
Veteran actor Martin Freeman sports a scruffy beard and a crewcut for his starring role as a sketchy cop in “The Responder,” a new drama series on BritBox.
“As soon as I read the script I knew how I wanted him to look,” Freeman, 50, told The Post about his onscreen alter-ego. “I could see someone with a skinhead and a beard, weirdly enough. I don’t always have a strong image of someone when I read a script but … I could see him the way he looks in the series.
“I don’t know why, but it just looked right.”
The six-episode police...