Steve Coogan has admitted that he was 'affected deeply' by the recording of one scene in particular in the new miniseries Stephen.
The three-part drama is a follow-up to the BAFTA-winning film The Murder of Stephen Lawrence and starts in 2006, 13 years after the racist murder of Lawrence, following the re-investigation of the crime in an attempt to bring those responsible to justice.
In the show Coogan plays DCI Clive Driscoll, the determined officer who was instrumental in reopening the case - and in one harrowing scene, Lawrence's attack is recreated by Driscoll with a young black officer playing the part of Lawrence.
"There were lots of scenes that were difficult including the reconstruction by Clive and his team in a police photographic studio of how Stephen was attacked. It affects you deeply," Coogan said.
"In some ways the understatement of it, the mechanical, dispassionate way it's enacted and recreated, somehow accentuates the horror of it and the inhumanity of the violence because of the clinical way it is displayed."
Stephen starts Monday night at 9pm on ITV.
Neil Wilkes
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