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Eccleston: 'Lennon was deeply flawed'
Published Monday, May 10 2010, 12:19 BST | By Catriona Wightman
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However, Eccleston, who will play the Beatles star in an upcoming BBC Four drama, explained that he was drawn to the musician.
"He's not been a hero of mine," Eccleston told the Liverpool Echo. "But I love him because he is so deeply flawed as a human being and he left so much for us."
The actor also admitted that he was anxious about stripping off to recreate the naked photo session Lennon had with Yoko Ono, played in the show by Naoko Mori.
"When you're going to shoot that scene you think, 'Well, he did it'," he explained. "So you do it. And then you all have to look at it. I just held my stomach in."
Lennon Naked is expected to air in June.
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