Russell T Davies, the writer of It’s a Sin, the Channel 4 drama about the HIV/Aids epidemic in the late 1980s, has revealed that the death of Colin, one of show’s characters, was partly based on the death of his partner. “I love Colin, I created Colin, I wanted to write his death to be as powerful … in order to do them justice you have to use that stuff. You have to dig it up and be raw.”Colin in It’s a Sin, played by Callum Scott Howells. It’s a Sin follows a group of young gay men who move to London in the 1980s. Dent, who described Davies as a “national treasure” following the success of the show, found the depiction “so moving”.

Source: The Guardian June 12, 2021 06:56 UTC