Charlotte Spencer Talks About The BBC’s The Gold Series Two

Getting Into Her Groove

The BBC’s The Gold returns for a second series on 8 June and here’s one of its stars Charlotte Spencer, who plays DI Nicki Jennings, talking about it…

What has it been like to return to this role and work closely with Hugh and Emun again?

The Gold is one of those special jobs that only comes around once in a while where you truly love the people you work with, and who become good friends. I’ve loved coming back to reprise this role. Jennings is a great character and I get to work with people I adore on and off screen. Emun and Hugh are mates now so they’re never getting rid of me!

How would you describe Jennings’ look in the second series?

Jennings in this series has got into her groove a bit more, she’s more comfortable with herself now and understands the job and what’s she’d doing.

Her look is more 90s and a bit more relaxed, but she still has some amazing outfits. I have this amazing green coat, which I just adore. Obviously, that was for the London scenes, not for Tenerife! There’s one outfit she wears in Tenerife, and we were joking that it looked like I could have been in Jurassic Park, it was great.

It’s subtle because things change slowly or there might be odd thing that comes in. I’m still obsessed with the phones, as I was in the first series. Every time I see a phone on set, I’m like ‘oh look at this one!’. In this series, we’ve also got the mobiles which were like bricks but they’re great.

In series two, Tony Lundy joins the team. How does Jennings respond to that?

Jennings doesn’t like Lundy when he first arrives, she does not trust him. I compare Jennings to a rottweiler, for some reason I always compare my characters with animals, but she’s very loyal and feels she knows right from wrong. When he comes in and she knows he’s possibly a bent cop, she’s not entirely sure about him and she’s very protective over Brightwell and Boyce. She just wants to catch the bad guys and to bring people to justice. I don’t think she’ll stop until it happens.