Daniel Mays ("Line of Duty", "Grand Theft One: Star Wars Story", "Public Enemy") plays Peter Wildblood, a thoughtful private gay journalist, in a powerful fact play on BBC Two, His lover Eddie McNally (played by TV newcomer Richard Gard) was under pressure from the authorities in one of the most explosive court cases of the 1950s, the infamous Montague trial, where the Queen's evidence was against him. More than a decade before the decriminalization of homosexual behavior in 1967, Peter Wildbrad and his friends Lord Montague (played by Mark Edel Hunter) and Michael Peter Rivers were convicted of homosexuality and imprisoned. As his career shattered and his private life painfully exposed, Wildwood began his sentence with a broken person, but a year later, he emerged from Wormwood Scrubs determined to do his best to change the impact of these strict laws against homosexuality on the lives of men like him. Daniel said, "I am very proud to be part of a TV series that tells such an important real-life story. Peter Wilde is a charming, complex, but flawed character, and when it was very difficult to be gay in the UK - I couldn't wait to bring his story to the audience of BBC Two." Patrick Holland, editor of BBC Two, He said, "Fifty years ago, in the UK, homosexuality was a crime." Opposing the Law "is an amazing work that combines drama and documentary testimony, telling the story of a man and his broader generation who strive to make society accept their sexual behavior as non criminal. This film will be directed by Ferguson O'Brien, the author of Brian Fillis It's great to introduce this important theme with his foresight, Daniel Mays' outstanding talent, and cast. In this powerful drama interspersed with the true testimony of a group of men who went through those dark days, when homosexuals were often imprisoned or forced to undergo chemical aversion therapy in an attempt to cure their "sexual perversion"; Conditions ";. There is also a testimony from a retired police officer whose job is to enforce these laws, and a former psychiatric nurse who is responsible for so-called treatment. All of these narratives help amplify the theme of the play and immerse us in the reality of our recent dark chapter, which is still in people's memories.
