The director/actor plays police Inspector Kurt Wallander in the hit crime drama, adapted from the Swedish novelist Henning Mankell's books.
The upcoming third season follows Branagh's character as he investigates the deaths of young prostitutes, and the Brit admits he felt the need to talk to Mankell before shooting the difficult scenes.
He says, "I wanted to know how he was when he was writing this sort of stuff for months on end. He said he had to stop writing some books because it got too much. I asked if people thought he went too far sometimes - because the next episode is fairly extreme.
"But he said nothing he has written goes anywhere near the extremes of his research in terms of human trafficking, paedophilia and the appalling things people do...
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