Saturday, 19 June 2010

Imagine John Lennon played by Doctor Who: Christopher Eccleston on becoming a Beatle

… but the Shallow Grave actor is considering a move into comedy after primal scream soul-baring of Lennon Naked

Back in 1994, when Christopher Eccleston was playing a psychotic chartered accountant in Shallow Grave, he spent the best part of a day in a working mortuary pretending to be dead. There wasn't enough money to recreate the mortuary in a studio and, anyway, director Danny Boyle wanted to keep it real. So Eccleston, then 30 and best known for playing Derek Bentley in Let Him Have It three years earlier, was put in a drawer with a Glaswegian member of the crew.

Guardian
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/tv-and-radio/2010/jun/19/christopher-eccleston-lennon-naked

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