Chatting with Express.co.uk and other media concerning the upcoming three-part series, MacFadyen said: “It’s ludicrous.
“I mean, he’s great fun [to play], but there’s something very sympathetic about him, you realize, he’s very personable and quite charismatic.”
“But additionally, it wasn’t without vanity,” MacFadyen continued. “And he liked the trimmings of his position, the success he had in party politics and it just unravelled.”
He said of playing Stonehouse during his “drastic and destructive” downfall: “I find it very funny, but very sad and interesting.
