The Times<\/a>, Clunes spoke about the research that had gone into his performance. \u201cI wanted to find bits where he wasn\u2019t reading the news, because we\u2019ve seen that Huw Edwards,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n\u201cLittle snippets of him at awards ceremonies or when he was off duty, to see how he rolled. He\u2019s a tiny bit more Welsh when he\u2019s not reading the news.\u201d <\/p>\n
One scene in the series depicts Edwards texting Davies before presenting the Ten O\u2019Clock News. <\/p>\n
\u201cOne of the archive bits I watched was an outside broadcast,\u201d Clunes continued. \u201cHe\u2019s outside Number 10 at night in a coat, and he\u2019s just texting, waiting to go live, which I found chilling in light of what we know.\u201d<\/p>\n
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Edwards leaves court in September 2024 (Getty Images)<\/p>\n
Elsewhere in the interview, Clunes said he didn\u2019t think he \u201cjudged\u201d Edwards in his performance.<\/p>\n
\u201cI never get into whether I like or dislike a character I\u2019m playing. I don\u2019t think I\u2019ve judged him in my performance. If it looks like I have, it\u2019s unintentional,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
The scandal surrounding Edwards began in July 2023, when a report in The Sun alleged that a \u201ctop BBC Star\u201d had paid a teenager for sexual images. <\/p>\n
Shortly after, Edwards\u2019 wife named him as the presenter in question. He subsequently exited his role at the BBC, and, in June 2024, he was charged by the Metropolitan Police following an investigation.<\/p>\n
In court, Edwards admitted to making indecent images of children, confirming he possessed 41 photographs on WhatsApp, seven of which were classified as the most serious type. He received a six-month jail sentence suspended for two years.<\/p>\n
Power is directed by Michael Samuels, known for The Windermere Children and Any Human Heart.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":477187,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[6491,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-477186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=477186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477186\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/477187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=477186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=477186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=477186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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