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The Responder’s Martin Freeman: Amanda Abbington ‘damaging’ marriage breakdown, and THOSE controversial sex scenes with girl 30 years his junior

Martin Freeman is back playing Chris Carson in The Responder, but who is his partner now after painful split from Strictly star?

Martin Freeman is back as troubled cop Chris Carson in series 2 of The Responder, whose onscreen partner is played by The Salisbury Poisonings star MyAnna Buring. In the 2o24, Martin portrays creative writing teacher Jonathan Miller, opposite Netflix Jenna Ortega who plays his teenage student. He went on to say that it’s “a shame” that the feature, which marks the debut of writer-director Jade Halley Bartlett, became the subject of scandal just because it touches on a difficult, uncomfortable topic.

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