![]() The focus is very much on the legacy rather than the crime itself,” says Nicholls, who sweetly emails me later to say he’s worrying about spoilers, especially as filming doesn’t start until the summer. ![]() “Certain things you can’t do, moments that are moved off-screen, implied or referred to in retrospect. “As a dramatist you have to resist the temptation to turn it into aristocrat-bashing.” There was also the delicate issue of how to depict the violent rape of the five-year-old Melrose by his own father. But he felt that he had to tread lightly. ![]() ![]() For Nicholls, who comes from a modest background - his father was a factory maintenance engineer, his mother was a dinner lady - and went to Toynbee Comprehensive School in Eastleigh, Hampshire, it was eye-opening. A furious, funny, charismatic, witty character who behaves badly, is sometimes monstrous and sometimes touching.”Īs a satire on the world of public schools, posh people and parties, the books are often compared to Evelyn Waugh. It’s a huge role and he’s in every scene, so it really needs someone with that mercurial Hamlet quality.
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