When Trainspotting director Danny Boyle set out to make a mini-series about punk icons the Sex Pistols, he had one condition: The actors had to play the songs for real. Boyle demanded, and received, a three-month rehearsal period - an almost unheard of length of time for a TV show. "It was a bit like secondary school," says Anson Boon, who plays Sex Pistols frontman John Lydon, aka Johnny Rotten. "In one of the earliest videos of the Sex Pistols, I noticed his shoulders were much more hunched. They are often painted as the villains of the Sex Pistols story, but Appleton took a more sympathetic view.

Source: Daily Nation May 28, 2022 15:27 UTC