Steve Coogan on Why He Chose to Play the Sexual Predator Jimmy Savile in The Reckoning

During a press tour at this year’s Toronto International Film Festival, British star Steve Coogan sat down with Collider at our Supper Suite to talk about his latest comedy/drama The Lost King. The story centers around the amateur historian (Sally Hawkins) who made history by locating the remains of King Richard III, which were lost for more than five centuries. However, our own Steve Weintraub couldn’t end the interview without talking to Coogan about his next project, which is also based on a real story. Though a far more horrifying one. In the upcoming BBC TV series The Reckoning, Coogan will play a controversial individual – to say the least. The two-time Academy Award nominee is set to embody Jimmy Savile, a British radio personality that was celebrated for raising a huge amount of money to charities… when he was alive. After Savile died in 2011, several people came forward to reveal that he was probably one of the worst sexual predators that the world has ever seen, with accounts from victims add