Steve Coogan’s film portrayal of university academic ruled defamatory
Steve Coogan’s film portrayal of a university academic has been ruled as defamatory. The ‘Philomena’ actor, 58, was a writer on and producer of the 2022 movie ‘The Lost King’, which told of real-life history researcher Phillipa Langley going up against Richard Taylor in her mission to find the grave of Richard III in 2012, half a century after the king was killed. Formerly a deputy registrar at the University of Leicester, Richard had sued Steve and his production company Baby Cow, as well as Pathe Productions – saying the portrayal of him in the film was an unfair caricature of a “suited bean...