The shocking photo of Alexander Litvinenko dying in a hospital bed was the starting point of a family story with global repercussions.
There was no mistaking that this was the face of a dying man. In 2006, a photograph of Russian refugee dissident Alexander Litvinenko lying in a British hospital bed, weak, hairless and obviously in pain, appeared on the front of every newspaper in the West.
And the man himself, says Smith, “was much more than that picture. There’s a father, a husband, a man with a righteous sense of conviction.” “In conversation, he felt close to Sasha, which meant he stayed with the case past the point where that would be the norm,” says Maskell, who also spent hours talking to the man he was to portray.“Just days before we started filming, I said to him ‘thanks for all your help, Brent’ and he said ‘I just need to say I really hope we talk again, and that next time, you’re calling to tell me you’re making a show about the arrest and conviction of the people who killed Sasha’.
“I never expected to be so experienced working with the justice system and politicians. It was Labour in the beginning and then the Conservative Party and I just started to realise everyone had their own agenda. It was 2010, 2011; people started to tell me ‘Marina, you don’t have a chance; the political climate is different now.’. I just couldn’t believe that.”
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