Sean Bean Forced to Quarantine When Filming 'Time' Over COVID-19 Scare TV Speaking about the challenges in filming the new prison drama series, director Lewis Arnold expresses his relief that the cast and crew were 'so accommodating and understanding.' Jun 3, 2021 Time" following a coronavirus scare. The " Game of Thrones" star, who plays incarcerated Mark Cobden in the new BBC series, was one of the cast members forced to quarantine during filming in Liverpool last year (2020). Director Lewis Arnold tells Press Association, "We had to change the plan every day. We lost Sean Bean for 10 days and all of our main core cast because we had an incident with COVID."