 Next , Nesbitt reunited with Occupation screenwriter Peter Bowker to star in the ITV medical drama series Monroe , playing Gabriel Monroe . Nesbitt was Bowker 's first choice for the part . Nesbitt researched the role of the neurosurgeon character by watching brain surgery being performed by Henry Marsh , and by consulting Philip Van Hille at Leeds General Infirmary . The series was filmed over 12 weeks in Leeds at the end of 2010 and broadcast on ITV during March and April 2011 . Nesbitt will reprise the role in a second series , which is due to begin production in 2012 . In film , Nesbitt co @-@ stars as Irish writer Jack in Emilio Estevez 's drama The Way , alongside Martin Sheen , Deborah Kara Unger , and Yorick van Wageningen , and has a role as Sicinius in Ralph Fiennes ' contemporary Shakespeare adaptation Coriolanus . 
 Next , Nesbitt reunited with Occupation screenwriter Peter Bowker to star in the ITV medical drama series Monroe , playing Gabriel Monroe . Nesbitt was Bowker <a href='null_genetive' title='1'><mark>'s</mark></a>first choice for the part . Nesbitt researched the role of the neurosurgeon character by watching brain surgery being performed by Henry Marsh , and by consulting Philip Van Hille at Leeds General Infirmary . The series was filmed over 12 weeks in Leeds at the end of 2010 and broadcast on ITV during March and April 2011 . Nesbitt will reprise the role in a second series , which <a href='drop_aux' title='2'><mark>is</mark></a>due to begin production in 2012 . In film , Nesbitt <a href='uninflect' title='3'><mark>co</mark></a> @-@ stars as Irish writer Jack in Emilio Estevez <a href='null_genetive' title='4'><mark>'s</mark></a>drama The Way , alongside Martin Sheen , Deborah Kara Unger , and Yorick van Wageningen , and <a href='got' title='5'><mark>has</mark></a> a role as Sicinius in Ralph Fiennes <a href='null_genetive' title='6'><mark>'</mark></a>contemporary Shakespeare adaptation Coriolanus . 
Next , Nesbitt reunited with Occupation screenwriter Peter Bowker to star in the ITV medical drama series Monroe , playin Gabriel Monroe . Nesbitt was Bowker  first choice for da part . Nesbitt researched the role of tdaneurosurgeon character by watching brain surgery bein performed by Henry Marsh , and by consulting Philip Van Hille at Leeds General Infirmary . Thdaeries was filmed ova 12 weeks in Leeds at the end of 2010 and broadcast on ITV during March and April 2011 . Nesbitt will reprise thedale in a second series , which due to begin production in 2012 . In film , Nesbitt coed @-@ stars as Irish writer Jack in Emilio Estevez  drama The Way , alongside Martin Sheen , Deborah Kara Unger , and Yorick van Wageningen , and got a role as Sicinius in Ralph Fiennes  contemporary Shakespeare adaptation Coriolanus .