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Steve Coogan admits that he accepted the role of Jimmy Savile in The Reckoning “with great trepidation”. It's safe to say that viewers will approach the upcoming TV drama in a similar vein.The Philomena actor was speaking at a press screening on Thursday, where assembled journalists sat down to watch the controversial four-parter – written by Four Lives and Appropriate Adult’s Neil McKay and executive produced by Jeff Pope – for the first time.
'It’s as disturbing as it looks”. Were there any aspects of the original script that he simply refused to follow through with? “In that morgue scene there was a certain shot they wanted to do that I didn’t want to do, it was a detail that I wasn’t comfortable with,' he told the crowd. 'I had a conversation with the director and we came to an agreement on what was the most appropriate way to depict it.
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