While Daniel Mays may be best known for roles in the likes of Line of Duty, A Thousand Blows and The Thursday Murder Club, the actor is taking on a much darker role in ITV's Believe Me.
Worboys was convicted in 2009 for crimes including sexual assault and drugging with intent against 12 women between 2007 and 2008. In 2019, Worboys was convicted again for attacks on four more women, with police having received numerous and believing that over his 13-year career as a London taxi driver, he could have drugged and attacked more than 100 female passengers.
While the new series is very much focused on the stories of the victims and survivors of Worboys and their resulting search for justice, we do follow Worboys at certain points.
"I thought I've got 26 years experience as a professional actor but I'm not going to lie to you, it did, at times, take its toll. It was a difficult thing and an unsettling thing to portray and very isolating by its very nature."
Under the ruse of having won the lottery or struck lucky at the casino, Worboys would hold up a bag of money as evidence of his win while driving the women in the back of his taxi. He would then insist on giving them a glass of champagne to celebrate for him, as he was unable to drink while driving. The drink in question would be laced with sedatives and Worboys would then rape or sexually assault his victims, with many of them having no recollection of what had transpired.
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On Worboys's behaviour, Mays also told ITV in a press pack for the series: "He was insistent, and he didn't give up. The disturbing through line for the character that Jeff came up with was, you get the sense that as the story unfolds and it goes from year to year, once he'd stepped over that Rubicon, it's like he's compelled to do it all the time. He starts to fray at the sides, and he starts to get sloppy and it’s like he can't stop himself. I think he becomes more deranged and even more dangerous.
He went on: "I think driving the black cab was an extension of his stripping, that desire to be the centre of attention. He absolutely loved the fact that he was adored by women as a stripper and I have no qualms in saying, and there’s no doubt in my mind that he became a black cab driver to put himself in the vicinity of young, vulnerable, drunk women.
"In the guise of a London black cab, which obviously at the time and today, is seen as a safe haven. It takes such a long time to pass the knowledge to become a black cab driver. So that's how premeditated and focused he was on doing that and how determined he was to put himself in that position."
Believe Me will air on ITV from 10 May with all four episodes available to stream on ITVX.
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