Following his success as David Frost in Frost/Nixon and most recently as Brian Clough in The Damned United, for his next impersonation of a famous figure Michael Sheen will turn to law, BBC Films and Left Bank Films have announced. Sheen is to play the role of Lord Phillips, soon to preside over the new UK Supreme Court, in a film once again scripted by Peter Morgan. Under the working title Posh Pervert, the film will focus like the two earlier projects on a discrete episode in its subject’s life: it tells the story of the day in 2006 when the then Lord Chief Justice went undercover in Bletchley to do community service. Here’s an article from David Pannick about Lord Phillips’s wheeze, and Charon QC’s report, plus criticism from another Phillips (Melanie, apparently to be played by Alison Steadman); and finally here’s the quote from one of his Lordship’s community service colleagues that provides the film’s title.
Here’s the BBC Films press release with details of the production.
The title tickles me 🙂