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Liverpool-born Ian Hart is well known for his big screen roles including Harry Potter And The Sorcerer's Stone, Backbeat and Enemy Of The State.

In Dress To Impress by Arthur Ellison, Ian plays Jake – an alpha male who like his booze, his football and has a good relationship with his wife and his only son Daniel.

"He's an everyman. There is nothing about him that is particular, specific or unique. An average Joe, on an average income who likes a bevvy down the pub with his mates and the footie on Saturday. And then his child, his only son, throws a bombshell in.

"Suddenly his son's a cross-dresser and he doesn't know how to respond to that. He wasn't expecting that at all and you know it's not that he is not old-fashioned, he just has a traditional view of the world. He doesn't have the background, the education or the liberality to deal with it. He doesn't know what to do, how do you react to your son being a cross-dresser?

"For him, he's wrapped up in everyone else's preconceptions about sexuality. It's a complex series of questions you need to ask yourself. Far too complex for your average man on the street."

For Ian there was one obvious reason why he took part in the series and that is the episode director Gordon Hill: "Illy! The director Gordon Hill! I've know him since I was 17 – he said do you want to come and do this? That's it – very simple."

It was also a chance for Ian to return to his roots. "It was great to be back home," he says.

Dress To Impress by Arthur Ellison is episode four of Moving On, a new series of five unique contemporary dramas starring Shelia Hancock, Ian Hart, Richard Armitage, Mark Womack and Lesley Sharp and executive produced by Jimmy McGovern (The Street) for Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ One Daytime.