Steve Coogan is set to play Jimmy Savile in BBC One drama The Reckoning this year, with the project proving to be somewhat controversial when it was announced.<\/p>\n

However, Steve Coogan has recently told BBC Radio 5 Live<\/a> that while \u201cpeople have a sort of revulsion about the idea of even making it\u201d and the series is \u201cwalking a tightrope\u201d, it will \u201cvindicate itself\u201d when people see it on screens.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Speaking with Nihal Arthanayake, Coogan said: \u201cThe script is very well written. And it\u2019s something that needs to be talked about because to understand how predators operate, you have to look at the whole picture.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

\u201cLike any kind of figure who is repellent, you have to understand it. You have to look at the whole picture. You can\u2019t just caricature them, because if he was a caricature, he wouldn\u2019t have got away with it, because he had a certain amount of charisma.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo you have to look at that and understand it, and then it\u2019s less likely to happen in the future.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n