BEING HUW

Martin Clunes feels like he really got under the skin of disgraced newsreader Huw Edwards in a new TV drama.

- BY MARK JEFFERIES

The 64-year-old stars in Power: The Downfall of Huw Edwards, alongside Osian Morgan as a young man known only as "Ryan", who is manipulated and controlled by Edwards.

Channel 5's drama focuses on Edwards' double life, leading to his arrest and exit from public life. Martin, 64, says: "I was familiar with Huw Edwards, the newsreader, and how he presented himself when he was reading the news.

"But I've seen other actors make the mistake of just inhabiting that projected face of a famous person or politician, I knew that we needed the other side of him, too.

"Finding archive clips of Edwards away from the news was less easy, but I wanted to make sure I did. I noticed from looking at that archive that he was different when he wasn't reading the news, and I wanted to make that distinction.

"If you listen to his rhythms, he's far more Welsh when he's not newsreading.

"I didn't know the details and I didn't really want to at the time, but for the purposes of this drama I think they're extremely important. How does something like this happen, with someone who is right in front of our faces every single night?"