Upcoming drama on ITV Trust me Featuring established and rising British stars coming together to tell a harrowing British story. Amy Fionn Edwards (Slow horses, Peaky Blinders, Mr. Burton), Asia Shah (Raised by wolves, blood, the beast must die) and Myriam Peachey (industry) in the four-episode series opposite Danielle Mays (Line of duty, Dis, A Thousand Strikes, The Moonflower Murders) as John Worboys, known in the United Kingdom by a more sinister nickname: “The Black Cabin Rapist.”
It has made many headlines, so now is the time for the women who have suffered because of it to see their stories and experiences. From the humiliation of multiple interviews with police and the collection of intimate evidence to the skeptical lines of questioning from police officers, Trust me It takes viewers through many painful, frustrating and infuriating experiences.
actually, Trust meWritten and performed by Jeff Pope (Philomena, Stan and Ollie, Sila), produced by Etta Pictures, part of ITV Studios, and directed by Julia Ford, tells the story of the victims of “one of the most pervasive sexual attackers in British history” and how they are “failed by the system,” as the show’s description says. “Worboys was convicted in 2009 of crimes, including sexual assault and intentional drugging, against 12 women between 2006 and 2008, with his cases chosen from a large number of other suspected victims. His modus operandi was to pick up women in his car after a night out, claim to have hit a win at a casino or the lottery, and then continually offer them a glass of champagne filled with drugs to help them out.” “Partying” – which made his victims Unconscious.
Trust me It focuses on the tribulations of two women (whose real names are not used, with the show instead using pseudonyms, with elements of their stories changed to protect their anonymity), portrayed by Edwards and Shah. They reported sexual assaults by the Worboys, only to see London’s Metropolitan Police, also known as Scotland Yard, fail to thoroughly investigate their cases, effectively leaving the Worboys free to commit assaults undetected for years. After his trial, it was realized that he was linked to allegations of further sexual crimes against more than a hundred women.
Trust me It is expected to premiere on ITV and ITVX in the coming weeks, and no official launch date has been set yet. The drama is produced in association with ITV Studios and distributed. Filmed in Cardiff with support from the Welsh Government via Creative Wales.
As a writer and/or producer, Bob has explored true crime stories in series such as widowerabout convicted murderer Malcolm Webster, and the accountAbout the sexual crimes of British journalist Jimmy Savile. But he prefers to explore the human repercussions of crimes rather than glorify their perpetrators. “This has really been my process for a long time now,” Bob shared during an online discussion about Trust me With members of the press. “I’m not really interested in trying to get into the minds of psychopaths.”
In fact, he said the creative team, including director Ford, knew very quickly where the story would focus. “We actually settled very early in the creative process on making this about the experience of the victims,” Bob explained. “These women were drugged and could tell something had happened, but they didn’t know exactly what had happened.”
The creative team doesn’t show us the crimes themselves, but rather the reasons behind them and the emotional repercussions. “We take the audience on the journey with [these women] “The day they report being assaulted, hours and hours and hours of interviews are done, intimate examinations, more interviews are done, samples are taken, intimate swabs are done,” Bob explained. “These women have just gone through the most horrific process ever, only to be told at the end that we don’t believe a crime has occurred. Basically: ‘We don’t believe you.’ That’s also where the title of the series comes from.”
Miss had already collaborated in the past with Pop On Mrs. Biggs and Suspect: Jean-Charles de Menezes shotHe was confident of that Trust me It will be a strong showing. “If Jeff is coming to you with a script, you know it’s going to be honest, it’s going to be engaging, and it’s going to be meticulously researched,” the actor shared with the press. “He’s quite meticulous in his storytelling. He comes from a journalism background, and so, as much as it was a huge character for me to face, with all the challenges it threw at me, Jeff, as a writer, seemed to get the best out of me as an actor.”
Mays went on to highlight the challenges of portraying a convicted criminal like Worboys, also describing the role as a “huge thing to do” and an “acting challenge”.
The star shared: “You’re being asked to humanize an evil person, basically. It’s about getting under those headlines and trying to play him in as three-dimensional a way as possible.”
Pope said he knows Mays will be able to overcome this challenge. But what about the emotional toll of slipping into the role of Worboys? “I underestimated how difficult it was going to be,” Mays told reporters. “I have 26 years of experience as a professional actor, but I’m not going to lie to you. It took its toll at times. It was difficult and unsettling to film, and very isolating in nature.”
Director Ford was asked how she described the show as a fair and balanced depiction of what happened to the Worboys’ victims. “It seemed like the best way to tell the story,” she explained.
She continued: “It is undeniable that these women were treated very poorly by the police, and we are telling the story from their point of view.” “But I think what she meant by that is that we are not pointing the finger at one individual, or one policeman or policewoman. It is not about a specific individual, it is about the entire system.”
