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.

  • ᴇᴍᴘᴇʀᴏʀ 帝OPMA
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    1 year 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.

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