He’s Australia’s favourite bogan, but does the Shane Warne miniseries tell it like it was? Star Alex Williams spills the (baked) beans.
Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time.Alex Williams was just a nipper when Shane Warne burst onto the scene, but he remembers well the impression made on him by the spin bowler with dyed blonde hair, diamond-stud earring, and the nickname Hollywood.
, aged just 52. Along the way there were scrapes and scandals galore, as well as an awful lot of cricket.covers a good chunk of that event-packed life, including some of the on-field triumphs, the off-field struggles, and the tabloid headlines. It’s a lot to fit in. Growing up, Williams was only conscious of Warne the cricketer. But to play him, he needed to find Warne the man, too.“As an actor you’re always going into something like this, playing a real person, looking for truth, and trying to portray someone as a three-dimensional character,” he says. “You don’t want to come in and just be the man that’s out in front of everyone on TV playing cricket.
“Do any of you have any respect for Dad or his family,” Brooke posted on Instagram last September, after Nine announced the show in its upfronts presentation. “You are beyond disrespectful.”But relations between the network and the Warne camp seem to have calmed down a little since then. In December, Brooke confirmed the family had met the show’s producers. “We had a meeting with them and, you know, what’s done is done,” she said. “So we’ll see what happens when it comes out.
For Williams, it is the flaws that make Warne so relatable, and are key to understanding his ongoing appeal to so many Australians.
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