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'I was shell-shocked by my depiction in Steve Coogan film', says academic set to receive 'substantial damages'
A university academic who is receiving "substantial damages" for how he was portrayed in a film has told Sky News he hasn't received an apology from star Steve Coogan - nor the two companies involved in its production.
Richard Taylor said he was "shell-shocked" after seeing The Lost King for the first time, a film about how Richard III's skeleton was discovered below a car park in Leicester. He told The UK Tonight with Sarah-Jane Mee: "I wasn't consulted or even knew I was in the film.
The first I hear is I get a phone call while I'm on holiday - and eventually, after press previews, I persuade the producers to let me see a preview." Last year, a judge ruled that Mr Taylor was depicted as "smug, unduly dismissive and patronising" - with the plot suggesting he "knowingly" misled the public. "I'm portrayed by someone on screen who looks like me, who sounds like me, who dresses like me - but behaves in a way that falls so far short of the standards I set for myself and what others might reasonably expect of me," the academic explained.
Mr Taylor revealed he received emails at work telling him to "rot in hell.
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