What does Danny Boyle make of Sex Pistols frontman John Lydon referring to him as a 'Boyle on the bum'? The director talks to KirstyWark about how he dealt with Lydon's fury about new series 'Pistol' 👇
" by Slashfilm - and the cast's immersion in the music is crucial to its authenticity.
But the former frontman's anger didn't stop there. When a trailer for the series dropped in April, Lydon raged that it was a "middle-class fantasy" that put words in his mouth and "rewrote history"."I don't want him to like it - I want him to attack it,"Boon, who had to embody Lydon on screen, is equally diplomatic.
"I'm fascinated by the physical transformation he went through," says Boon. "In one of the earliest videos of the Sex Pistols, I noticed his shoulders were much more hunched. Then around Grundy, the shoulders dropped a bit, and by the time they played in America, his chest was almost puffed.Image caption,The actors also got help from surviving Sex Pistols Glen Matlock, Paul Cook and Steve Jones as well as other people who knew the band.
But perhaps the trickiest characters to pinpoint were Sid Vicious and Nancy Spungen , whose self-destructive, drug-fuelled relationship ended in tragedy when Spungen was found dead with stab wounds in a New York hotel. Vicious died of an overdose four months later, while awaiting trial for her murder.
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