Martin Clunes believes no one in the UK truly knows the story of disgraced BBC news anchor Huw Edwards.
Edwards, who paid a teenager at the BBC for sexual pictures and subsequently pled guilty to making indecent images of children, is the subject of a new drama for Paramount UK network 5 starring the Wuthering Heights actor as the lead.
As he was learning lines and rehearsing, Clunes said he realized there was plenty of misinformation swirling around Edwards.
“Did anybody here know the whole story before the show?,” asked Clunes of the audience at yesterday’s London screening of Power: The Downfall of Huw Edwards. “There was a lot of fudgery around it. There was sympathy for him until they found what was on his phone but I think maybe everybody lost interest by that point because the next bit of news came along. Donald Trump had done something.”
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