LUKE Goss, one-time pin-up boy with 80s band Bros, is currently on Tyneside playing a ruthless killer in a film called Interview With A Hitman.

After appearing in several American films, this is the singer-turned-actor’s first film in this country.

Shooting – with cameras – has been going on for several days, primarily at night, with recent locations including the Union Rooms public house on Westgate Road and Hoults Yard in Byker.

The film is the latest to benefit from the £2.4m creative content fund set up by Newcastle-based Northern Film & Media in partnership with investment company Northstar Ventures.

It is the penultimate project to benefit from the fund which was set up to back film ventures likely to see a commercial return.

Producer Dean Fisher, of Scanner-Rhodes Productions, was recently in the North East making another Northern Film & Media-supported film, a forthcoming urban thriller called The Man Inside, starring Peter Mullan, David Harewood and Michelle Ryan.

The synopsis for Interview With A Hitman reads: “Raised in the harsh slums of Romania, ruthless assassin Viktor (Goss) knows the value of life more than most, which makes him the perfect killer.

“But after being betrayed by the very men who made him, he must fake his own death and escape to the UK. Here he joins a new gangster family and finds his rules are again put to the test in the midst of a vicious underworld power struggle.”

Luke Goss and his twin brother Matt became heartthrobs to countless little girls when they formed Bros with Craig Logan in 1986.

After hits including When Will I Be Famous, the band split in the early 1990s and Luke started to make a new career as an actor on stage and screen.