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BBC releases first photo of Steve Coogan as Jimmy Savile in harrowing new series (www.independent.co.uk)
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BBC has unveiled the first official photograph of Steve Coogan in character as Jimmy Savile.

Coogan will play the disgraced TV star in a forthcoming four-part BBC drama titled The Reckoning, which will dramatise Savile’s history of paedophilia.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Hrmmm, not sure I agree that this is a story that "needs to be told", or at least not in a dramatasised BBC 4-parter. This feels like an attempt to capitalise on the very real misory of a lot of people into a bafta nomination for such a powerful tv show and continues to build a cult of notoriarity around Saville.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I just hope Coogan doesn't go full paedo.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

You should never go full paedo, except when you are acting in the role of a massive paedo.

I know they go to great pains over how they've consulted widely on this but what he got up to was truly horrific and I don't know how you'd capture that outside of a horror movie. As Ed Gein inspired so many cinematic monsters, perhaps there's a slew of movies in the pipeline featuring tracksuit wearing corpse-bothering nonces as the monster.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago

Honestly, I don't think the BBC are the ones who should be doing this. It comes across as a way to write the history of what went on in the form they want.