RadioTimes.com<\/a> about playing the character, and how he wanted to portray his disability \u201csensitively\u201d and worked on getting his physicality and movement right.<\/p>\nHe explained: \u201cI was asked to read the scripts when I was in the middle of doing Richard III at the RSC, and in rehearsals for that. Obviously, playing a character who\u2019s famously derided for his appearance and his hunched back at that time, I had some good conversations with the directors, writers, producers about, if I was to play Shardlake<\/span>, how I\u2019d want to do it.<\/p>\n\u201cSo that was my starting point for how we wanted to portray him \u2013 not in the usual, bent double, kind of hobbling around in a very caricature fashion. I wanted to root Shardlake<\/span>\u2019s disability in something that was truthful to my own experience, because disability is often aped in a way that isn\u2019t as sensitively done as I would like.\u201d<\/p>\n