Coogan is seen sporting Savile’s signature hairstyle and tracksuit

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.

  • TWeaKEnglish
    5·
    11 months ago

    I just hope Coogan doesn’t go full paedo.

    • ᴇᴍᴘᴇʀᴏʀ 帝@feddit.ukOPMEnglish
      4·
      11 months 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.