The Lost King: Stephen Frears & Steve Coogan on Making Their Wild True Story | TIFF

During this year’s Toronto International Film Festival, two-time Academy Award nominee Steve Coogan (The Trip) had a lot to say as he stopped by the Collider Supper Suite and Media Studio at Marbl. On a press tour to promote his newest movie The Lost King–which he costars in and co-wrote–Coogan talked about telling another surprising real-life story, working with Sally Hawkins (The Shape of Water), and why he chose to play sexual predator Jimmy Savile in an upcoming series. Coogan was accompanied by fellow Academy Award nominee and director Stephen Frears (The Queen), who directed The Lost King, and Jeff Pope (Philomena), who co-wrote the script. The trio had a long conversation with Collider’s own Steve Weintraub in which they discussed specific shots, medieval monarchy and the Tudors, meeting and portraying the real Philippa Langley (played by Hawkins in the movie), and they even teased future projects. The Lost King is based on the real story of an amateur historian who becomes obsessed with