Steve Coogan has revealed he requested a scene be removed from his new drama The Reckoning, which depicts the crimes of Jimmy Savile.

The four-part series mixes dramatised events with real-life testimonies from Savile’s victims, with Coogan taking on the lead role.

At a press event to promote the new show, the actor acknowledged the difficulty in “striking that balance” between “showing too much of Savile’s offences” and “sugar-coating them”, revealing there was one sequence in the original script set in a morgue which he was not willing to enact.

Per The Independent, Coogan said: “There was a certain shot they wanted to do that I didn’t want to do.

“It was just a detail that I was uncomfortable with, so 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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