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.
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.
I just hope Coogan doesn’t go full paedo.
Well, when you gaze into the abyss…
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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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.
It was released on the iPlayer tonight. It doesn’t pull any punches or paint the BBC in a defensive manner.
It’s a brutal, tough watch but to be fair to Coogan, he is outstanding, totally nails it.
