Lucy Boynton braves the cold on set of The Ipcress File remake

She is set to play screen siren Jean Courtney in The Ipcress File remake.

And Lucy Boynton was seen getting into character as she dashed around the set of the ITV series between scenes on Tuesday. 

Despite the frosty weather in Liverpool, the 27-year-old actress wasted no time as she dashed from trailer to trailer in a T-shirt and skirt holding a toothbrush. 

Dressed in all-blue, the Miss Potter star donned a flimsy T-shirt and plaid skirt, later layering up in a padded coat and donning cosy grey boots. 

Lucy’s hair was styled in a glossy bob, while she accessorised with large pearlescent earrings.  

The Ipcress File is an ITV six-part series remake of the 1965 British espionage film starring Michael Caine. 

Filming began last month on Exchange Street West, close to Liverpool Town Hall, which had been transformed into 1960s London.  

While most of the film is being filmed in Liverpool, shooting will move to Croatia later this year to continue filming.

The series has been written by Trainspotting writer John Hodge and the all-star cast also includes The Night Manager’s Tom Hollander and Peaky Blinders star Joe Cole.  

Joe takes on the lead role as Harry Palmer, a working-class British sergeant in Berlin as the Cold War rages in the sixties. 

Joe’s character – famously played by Michael Caine – is slated as being ‘sharp and savvy’ with a series of side-hustles that could potentially land him in hot water with the law.

However an intelligence officer notices his abilities and offers him a way to dodge jail by becoming a spy for the British government.

Palmer undertakes his first case known as The Ipcress File, which involves using his links to a man believed to have kidnapped a British nuclear scientist.

Lucy will play the glamorous Jean Courtney, originally played by Sue Lloyd.

The protagonist is assigned an assistant, Jean, a beautiful young woman towards whom he begins to develop romantic feelings. 

The original espionage film and its following sequels were a deliberately downbeat alternative to the hugely successful James Bond films.

Despite this, one of the early Bond producers, Harry Saltzman and others were brought into work on the Palmer series.

Palmer is a contrast to Bond’s privileged private school upbringing and lives and works in a ‘gloomy’ London, where he resides in a Notting Hill bedsit.

The original film was produced at Pinewood studios while also being shot on location around London.

It is now included on the British Film Institute’s list of 100 of the best British films of the 20th century, ranking at number 59. 

It has been reported by Deadline that the production is being produced by The Crown’s Andrew Eaton and directed by Black Mirror’s James Watkins.

The original Ipcress File was awarded three BAFTAs and the novel has sold more than 10 million copies worldwide.

It also kicked off a series of seven other books, meaning there is scope for further series if this one proves a ratings hit. 

Writer Hodge told the publication: ‘This is a wonderful opportunity to inhabit a time when the post-war world was morphing into the way we live now, when social mobility, civil rights, and modern feminism were forcing their way into public consciousness, and all of it happening with the world divided in two and both halves threatening to blow the whole thing sky high.’