Gillian Kearney has revealed that working on new drama Justice took her back to her days on Brookside. The actress, best known for playing Jessica Harrison in Casualty, played teenager Debbie McGrath in the now-defunct Channel 4 soap and said it was great to be reunited with some of the crew on the set of crime drama Justice. She said: "It was lovely to be filming back in Liverpool, I felt like I was with friends. "Especially with Colin McKeown (the executive producer) because we did Damon And Debbie and Brookside together when I was a child. Every time I see him I feel like I'm fifteen again!" For the Liverpool-born actress who is now based in Bristol, the job also heralded a welcome return to Merseyside. "I'd just had a baby, it was coming up to Christmas, all my old friends were there and I had a great script, a great part and good fun," she said. Gillian plays a hard-hitting journalist in the BBC1 daytime drama, which she thinks is comparable to her current favourite series The Wire. "There's the drugs and the violence, and then the press get involved in the fifth series. I'm just on to that bit now and I'm like, 'This is like our newspaper office'," she said. Justice starts on Monday, April 4 on BBC1 and continues each weekday for five days.
