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Velibor Topic plays the bad guy - again - Radio Times, May 2007

Velibor Topic as Stenga in Holby Blue © BBC
Claire Webb gets the actor's take on playing characters on the wrong side of the law.

"Here at RT, we like a bit of Velibor Topic-spotting. Our most recent sighting of the Bosnian actor is in Holby Blue as drugs baron Neculai Stenga - and this isn't the first time he's terrorised Bristol's emergency services, having appeared in both Casualty and Holby City.

Topic's clearly a nice guy really (when we spoke to him, he was helping his mum out in the garden), and he tells us he's performed everything from Japanese theatre to Greek tragedy. Yet here in Britain, he rarely manages to escape a life of crime. His roles to date include a war criminal (Prime Suspect), a trafficker of illegal immigrants (The Bill) and a suspected serial killer (Silent Witness).

"I've played a lot of criminals from Eastern Europe," Topic tells us, accurately, "but I've always tried to do them a little differently. I find every new role a big challenge." Hmm. If Topic's not worried about typecasting, Mum is: "She says, 'You can't always be a criminal!'"

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