Actor Alistair McGowan has admitted he had misgivings before agreeing to play Jimmy Savile in a new West End play.
Written by former journalist Jonathan Maitland, An Audience with Jimmy Savile focuses on the decades of abuse carried out by the late presenter and how he managed to cover up his crimes.
McGowan told the BBC’s Andrew Marr he had had “third, fourth, fifth and sixth thoughts” about doing the play.
But a lot of abuse victims thought the play was 30 years too late, he added.
Since his death in 2011, it has emerged that Savile was one of the UK’s most prolific sexual predators.
