An ITV series’ staff and cast members were ‘attacked’ while filming in a tiny town.
While filming the third series of drama Van Der Valk in a Dutch village, actors Marc Warren and Maimie McCoy were told in no uncertain terms how they were seen.
When they spent four days filming the series, the cast and crew were advised to ‘get lost’ and pack their belongings.
Maimie thought on the embarrassing scenario, recalling how the peasants ‘hated our presence.’
She told The Sun that people would beep their horns as they attempted to film shots in the town, and that one of the caravans the crew was resting in was attacked in the middle of the night by a lady who shattered the back window.
Locals sometimes get’very enthusiastic’ when film crews arrive in their town, according to Maimie, but this was definitely not the case in the Dutch village.
Instead, she said, ‘it would be like, “Get lost, get out of our place!”‘
Ironically, series Van Der Valk is a crime drama – a reboot of the 1970s hit – and things got a little bit too real for the cast and crew while working on it.
It is set in Amsterdam and stars Marc as the eponymous crimefighter Simon ‘Piet’ Van Der Valk. The remake begins with him investigating the murder of two political activists in the Dutch city.
The series is based on the novels of Nicholas Freeling, who authored ten volumes about Van Der Valk between 1962 and 1972, as well as one last Van Der Valk book, Sand Castles, in 1989.
He killed off the character in 1972 (the events of the 1989 book occurring prior to Van Der Valk’s death), but went on to write two further books portraying the character’s wife Arlette in 1979 and 1981.
